EUROPE PLOTS NEW BID TO SOLVE HIV VACCINE CHALLENGE

BY KEITH NUTHALL THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is pumping Euro 11.9 million into a new international effort to create a vaccine that destroys HIV completely in patients. The five year (2010-2015) CUT'HIV project is being coordinated by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, and also includes Finland's FIT Biotech Oy Ltd, Germany's Geneart AG, and other university researchers from Britain, Germany, Spain, Peru and Mozambique. A project communiqué said these experts would pursue "innovative approaches for an HIV vaccine enhancing broadly cross-reactive ...


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.