HIV Vaccines

Naked DNA Vaccine Moves Forward in Animal Tests

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 11th, 1995

Monkey experiments bolster hopes that a naked DNA HIV vaccine might one day give people with HIV infection the upper hand in their battle with HIV.

The vaccine is being developed by a research team led by David B. Weiner of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in collaboration with Apollon Inc., Malvern, Pennsylvania. Weiner's group in 1995 received a four-year, $4.2 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop naked DNA for use as an AIDS therapy.

Weiner recently reported that one of four monkeys inoculated with the vaccine remained uninfected after receiving a massive dose of an...

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