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A Canadian research team received a green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to begin human trials on a potential HIV vaccine, the National Post reports.
Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, virologist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ont., is leading the research team that will conduct the clinical trials. After the groups potential vaccine showed no side effects on rats and monkeys, the FDA agreed to advance it to the first of three phases of human trials, which can begin next month. The FDA is involved because Kangs team is working with a Korean pharmaceutical company with patents in the U.S.; the company likely hopes to market the vaccine, if successful, in America.
The possible vaccine, in the works since 1987, is actually a dead HIV virus infected into cells. So we infect the cells with a virus and then the infected cells will produce lots of virus and we can collect them, purify them and then inactivate them, Kang said in a video posted on the University of Western Ontarios YouTube channel.
http://www.advocate.com/Health_and_Fitness/Health_News/Human_Testing_on_Possible_HIV_Vaccine_Starts_in_Jan/
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)Complex drug regimens aren't a long term solution.
Ohio Joe
(21,776 posts)NavyDem
(533 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)Drug companies make too much money off treatments.
You can only sell the cure once.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)And I don't think anyone has a clue yet whether or not it confers lifelong immunity. So boosters are almost a certainty.