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HIV Institute Researchers @ UCSF get $20M New Funding

Posted by BCI Staff on Mon, Apr 11, 2016

Researchers at the Institute for HIV Cure Research in San Francisco recently received a $20M grant from the Foundation for AIDS Research. This grant will support researchers from UCSF, the Gladstone Institute, and other academic partners in making revolutionary breakthroughs in this lifesaving area of research.

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Tags: CA, HIV, AIDS Research, California, University of California, Funding, Biotechnology Vendor Showcase, UCSF, research grants

Rockefeller Research Reveals Retrovirus Reservoirs

Posted by David Larsen on Wed, Feb 18, 2015


Drugs for HIV have become adept at suppressing infection, but they still can’t eliminate it. That’s because the medication in these pills doesn’t touch the virus’ hidden reserves, which lie dormant within infected white blood cells. Unlock the secrets of this pool of latent virus, scientists believe, and it may become possible to cure – not just control – HIV.

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Tags: Rockefeller University, HIV, New York, 2015, RockU, BioResearch Product Faire Event, virus

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