July 11, 2011

NIH Gives $14M in 2011 to HIV Cure Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is providing grants to three research teams working on strategies to eradicate HIV from its reservoirs in the body, according to an NIH statement. The teams will receive more than $14 million per year for up to five years for their cure research. Funding beyond the first year is subject to availability of appropriations. Each team is working on a separate approach for expunging latent HIV from the reservoirs where it hides from current antiretroviral therapies.

The teams include: the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, collaborating with Sangamo Biosciences; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, collaborating with Merck Research Laboratories; and the University of California at San Francisco and the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida, collaborating with Merck Research Laboratories. Sangamo and Merck will not receive federal funds.

To read the NIH statement, click here.

To read more details from AIDSmeds, click here.

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Frederick Wright, Southern Califorina, 2011-07-11 22:53:54
I think California put a pot together for of 30 billion for stem cells research and developmental cures, truely 14 million for a cure for AIDS, when the yearly cost is 18 billion for treatment and prevention in US and globally we invest 9 billion for ARVs treatments and 30 million people without treatment. It seem like all of the G 7 can put 1 billion in for a 7 billion dollar trust for a cure, Research and Developement in University Science teams. Come on NIH for it clear they are not serious