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Direct-DNA Vaccine Technology Shows Results Against HIV

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 15th, 1996

A vaccine has sparked a substantial immune-system response in sixty percent of HIV infected patients in a Phase I clinical trial conducted at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC).

The same technology protects uninfected chimpanzees against high doses of HIV in another Penn study, and lowered the amount of virus present in HIV infected chimpanzees to undetectable levels in still another. The human clinical trial results were presented by Rob Roy MacGregor III, M.D., at the XI International Conference on AIDS, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, July 7-12, 1996. Research associate Jean D. Boyer, Ph.D., discussed the chimpanzee data at the same...

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