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VIDEO: Sessions on HIV cure, reservoirs provide masterful overview of research progress
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SAN DIEGO — In this video with Healio.com, Rajesh Tim Gandhi, MD, provides a survey of the more intriguing aspects of a session on HIV cure and HIV reservoirs held at IDWeek 2015.
In the first presentation, Luis Montaner, DVM, MSc, DPhil, of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA, reviewed his work with interferon. Montaner and colleagues aim to determine if the drug can reduce HIV reservoirs, Gandhi said.
The second speaker, Dan Barouch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and director of Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, gave “a really interesting talk on neutralizing antibodies.”
“… In animal models, it looks very promising that [neutralizing antibodies] may be able to reduce HIV levels,” Gandhi said. The approach is now being pursued in humans.
The final presenter, Joseph Eron, MD, professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, gave a “masterful overview” of the cure field, reviewing the rationale for a cure as well as current and future research.
“I think, over the next years… We’re going to see how these play out toward whether we can really cure HIV,” Gandhi said.