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Grants Awarded for Gene Therapy Approaches to Treat HIV and Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, September 15th, 1997

Avigen, Inc., Alameda, California, announced the receipt of a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and one from the University of California (UC) aimed at advancing research on gene therapy approaches to treat HIV infections and cancer.

The NIH Grant is a renewal of a National Cooperative Drug Discovery Grant (NCDDG) supporting the development of a "Trojan horse" approach to treating HIV infections called "Capsid Targeted Viral Inactivation" (CTVI). In this approach, Avigen and its collaborators deliver to HIV-infected cells a gene coding for a modified version of one of the HIV proteins.

When the virus replicates in a cell...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-09-15)

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