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Research News
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A Person-Centered Cure
An amfAR-funded study examined the attitudes and needs of HIV cure trial participants—people living with HIV who go off antiretrovirals to test certain strategies.
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What’s the Role of Natural Killer Cells in Curing HIV?
Description: A study coauthored by amfAR grantee Dr. Timothy Schacker suggests a way to decrease HIV-producing cells in lymphatic tissue.
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Enhancing Innate Immunity Against HIV
Researchers find clues to HIV cure strategies in the immunity profile of elite controllers, people living with HIV who can control the virus without medications.
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Importance of the Brain as an HIV Reservoir
Researchers bring sharper focus to a not-very-accessible HIV cure target.
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COVID-19, Pregnancy, and Protection
Researchers discover immune mechanisms that protect fetuses of SARS-CoV-2-infected mothers from COVID-19’s ill effects.
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New Case of Post-Treatment Control
Researchers in the Netherlands report on a man who has been undetectable without being on antiretrovirals for almost two decades.
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Overcoming Toxicities Associated with Virus-Based Gene Therapy
Fine-tuning an HIV cure strategy, an amfAR researcher considers ways to deliver gene therapy with care.
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amfAR Grantee Dr. Drew Weissman Awarded Nobel Prize
2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó for pioneering mRNA research leading to COVID-19 vaccines.
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Combining CAR T Cell Strategies to Achieve an HIV Cure
amfAR researchers re-engage with anti-HIV CAR T cell therapies by exploring new ways to enhance their activity.
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How Does the HIV Reservoir Avoid Destruction?
Researchers define new ways that latent HIV, the main barrier to a cure, evades destruction by the immune system’s natural killer cells.
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New Case of Possible HIV Cure Reported
A new study that draws on the work of amfAR’s ICISTEM researchers reports a sixth person has potentially been cured of HIV via a stem cell transplant.
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amfAR Grants Advance Gene Therapy Approaches to Curing HIV
In its latest round of grants, amfAR awards $2.4 million to researchers investigating gene therapy approaches to curing HIV.
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Global Reach
amfAR’s wide-ranging research to be featured at International AIDS Conference on HIV Science 2023
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The Promise of Gene Therapy
amfAR’s support of HIV cure research based on gene therapy approaches is vital—breakthroughs are needed no matter the cost.
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Mapping a Moving Target
With a new mathematical modeling tool that more accurately predicts HIV mutations, researchers can potentially create more targeted interventions.