Media Availability: NIAID-Funded HIV Vaccine Research Generates Key Antibodies in Animal Models

Media Availability: NIAID-Funded HIV Vaccine Research Generates Key Antibodies in Animal Models

Monday June 22, 2015

NIAID-Funded HIV Vaccine Research Generates Key Antibodies in Animal Models

A trio of studies published Thursday in the journalsScience and Cell describes advances toward the development of an HIV vaccine. The three study teams all demonstrated techniques for stimulating animal cells to produce antibodies that either could stop HIV from infecting human cells in the laboratory or had the potential to evolve into such antibodies. Together, the three papers represent an important starting point for developing HIV vaccines that can elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies in people.