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From:	Adeyemo Gabriel [ profile ]
Subject:	India: First HIV lab
Sent:	Mar 5th, 2011 - 12:37:04

	Source:* The Calcutta Telegraph* AUTHOR: G. Mudur http://altw.telegraphindia.com/1110223/jsp/nation/story_13622577.jsp New Delhi, Feb. 22: India plans to set up its first laboratory exclusively tasked with designing vaccines against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and plunge deeper into a back-to-biology movement hatched after disappointing results worldwide with 30 candidate vaccines. India's biotechnology department and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a public-private partnership, will establish the vaccine design laboratory at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, a government-funded biotechnology centre near Delhi. Research at the THSTI-IAVI laboratory is expected to focus on designing and testing molecules that show potential in generating antibodies that can effectively neutralise HIV, scientists familiar with the proposal told The Telegraph.... The proposed activities at the THSTI-IAVI laboratory will be part of a renewed back-to-biology effort to decipher the molecular details of HIV infection and the immune system's response to it. Over the past two years, vaccine researchers at IAVI's New York laboratory and elsewhere have turned their attention on a set of molecules called the broadly neutralising antibodies that can neutralise the virus and appear to actually protect a small proportion of HIV-infected people from becoming ill. One of the tasks of the THSTI-IAVI laboratory may be to screen a large number of small fragments of proteins that, scientists hope, will generate these neutralising antibodies and protect humans from HIV, scientists familiar with the project said. "Nothing else seems to be working," said Virander Chauhan, the director of the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in New Delhi, who leads an independent team of scientists seeking molecules that will generate two neutralising antibodies codenamed 4E10 and 2F5. Click on the link above to read full article -- Many Thanks Yours' in Prevention Science Adeyemo Damilare Gabriel Moderator: Students' for Microbicides (S4M), Nigeria Regional Focal Point - West Africa Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AID +234-80-6798-7317 \| gabriel (at) gyca.org www.gyca.org \| www.tigweb.org GYCA is a youth-led global network of more than 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

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