Research priorities for an HIV cure: international AIDS society global scientific strategy 2021

SG Deeks, N Archin, P Cannon, S Collins, RB Jones… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV, lifelong
treatment is required and there is no cure. HIV can integrate in the host genome and persist …

The reservoir of latent HIV

J Chen, T Zhou, Y Zhang, S Luo, H Chen… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The persistence of latent reservoir of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is currently
the major challenge in curing HIV infection. After HIV infects the human body, the latent HIV …

Block-and-lock strategies to cure HIV infection

G Vansant, A Bruggemans, J Janssens, Z Debyser - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Today HIV infection cannot be cured due to the presence of a reservoir of latently infected
cells inducing a viral rebound upon treatment interruption. Hence, the latent reservoir is …

Barriers and strategies to achieve a cure for HIV

MC Pitman, JSY Lau, JH McMahon, SR Lewin - The Lancet HIV, 2018 - thelancet.com
9 years since the report of a cure for HIV after CC chemokine receptor type 5 Δ32 stem cell
transplantation, no other case of HIV cure has been reported, despite much research …

Strategies to eradicate HIV from infected patients: elimination of latent provirus reservoirs

I Sadowski, FB Hashemi - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Abstract 35 years since identification of HIV as the causative agent of AIDS, and 35 million
deaths associated with this disease, significant effort is now directed towards the …

Block and lock HIV cure strategies to control the latent reservoir

CL Ahlenstiel, G Symonds, SJ Kent… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The HIV latent reservoir represents the major challenge to cure development. Residing in
resting CD4+ T cells and myeloid cells at multiple locations in the body, including sanctuary …

Advances in HIV gene therapy

R Kitawi, S Ledger, AD Kelleher… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Early gene therapy studies held great promise for the cure of heritable diseases, but the
occurrence of various genotoxic events led to a pause in clinical trials and a more guarded …

[HTML][HTML] Novel siRNA therapeutics demonstrate multi-variant efficacy against SARS-CoV-2

E Bowden-Reid, S Ledger, Y Zhang, F Di Giallonardo… - Antiviral Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a respiratory
virus that causes COVID-19 disease, with an estimated global mortality of approximately 2 …

Transcriptional gene silencing in humans

MS Weinberg, KV Morris - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It has been over a decade since the first observation that small non-coding RNAs can
functionally modulate epigenetic states in human cells to achieve functional transcriptional …