Research at Weill Cornell Medicine suggests that childhood immunization against HIV could one day provide protection before risk of contracting this potentially fatal infection dramatically increases in adolescence.
Weill Cornell Medicine Aug 30 2024
What's more, evidence suggests that the immune systems of infants and children generally mount more effective responses to the virus than those of adults, said Dr. Permar. "One of the advancements we've made is to demonstrate that an HIV vaccine could be delivered on a schedule similar to routine vaccines already given to babies and children."
In this study, the researchers started with an experimental vaccine developed previously from spike proteins on the envelope of HIV particles. Study authors Dr. John Moore, a professor of microbiology and immunology, and Dr. Rogier Sanders, an adjunct associate professor of research in microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a professor at Amsterdam UMC, sought to improve this vaccine by altering the viral protein.
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