Category: Conferences & meetings
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No new HIV cure-related trials or studies were added to the clinicaltrials.gov registry over the past month. A total of eight updates have been made to TAG’s listing: A phase II study sponsored by AbbVie that was added to the listing in September (see prior blog update) is now open for enrollment. The company initiated…
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No new HIV cure-related trials or studies have been added to the clinicaltrials.gov registry over the past month. Two trials in the listing have changed status: A study sponsored by the ANRS in France investigating the link between specific immune system genetics (MHC B35/53Bw4TTC2) and post-treatment control of HIV is now open for enrollment. Participants…
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There are ten updates this month: a newly entered therapeutic HIV vaccine trial in China, a new observational study in Belgium, one observational study shifted to the completed studies table, and links added to presented/published results for seven of the studies in the listing. The therapeutic HIV vaccine trial is testing a novel DNA construct…
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The first press conference of the upcoming IAS 2023 meeting was held yesterday evening (US time) and featured several cure-related presentations. Most notably, Asier Sáez-Cirión and Alexandra Calmy described a possible case of an HIV cure (or at least extended remission) in an individual in Geneva who received a stem cell transplant to treat cancer.…
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The 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science, IAS 2023, officially gets underway in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday July 23, with several pre-meetings occurring the day before. Appended below are links to events and sessions related to HIV cure research. Abstracts should become publicly available starting on Monday July 24, but access to session…
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March tends to be the busiest month for updates to TAG’s HIV cure-related clinical research listing because of results being presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Today’s update includes links to 30 abstracts from CROI 2023; posters can be downloaded from the abstract pages, but webcasts of oral presentations won’t…
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The 24th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2022) officially opens on Friday in Montreal, but a Zoom press conference today shared news of results from several studies, including two case reports relevant to HIV cure research. Jana Dickter from the City of Hope hospital in Los Angeles described another instance of “prolonged HIV-1 remission” after receipt…
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This year’s virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) ended on February 24th. Abstracts from the meeting are now available publicly in an abstract book and searchable database. Webcasts of all the presentations are due to become available around March 25th. Several presenters reported potentially encouraging developments in HIV cure research, in addition to…
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The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is taking place virtually again this year, running from February 12th to February 24th. In a session today on HIV cure research, Yvonne Bryson and colleagues from the IMPAACT research network presented important news about another potential example of an HIV cure achieved by stem cell transplantation.…
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The past year has seen a notable expansion of efforts to apply gene therapy approaches to HIV cure research, and several online events have highlighted progress in the field. In parallel, work is underway that aims to make gene therapies more affordable and accessible globally. Two papers published early in the year (one in the…