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10 Sep 2015

More Hurdles Ahead Before HIV Cure

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Burnet Institute Senior Research Officer, Dr Lachlan Gray .

A Burnet Institute study has revealed treatments currently being trialed as a potential cure for HIV are less effective on the HIV virus in the brain compared to that found in the blood.

Published in the prestigious Nature journal, Molecular Psychiatry, the study tested a number of HIV ‘cure agents’ and found the two most promising of those, panobinostat and romidepsin, might not work effectively within the brain.

Research team member and first author, Burnet Institute Senior Research Officer, Dr Lachlan Gray said the research showed the HIV virus persisting in, and isolated from, the central nervous system is different to virus found in the blood.

Dr Gray joins Dean On The Line ahead of his presentation at an HIV Cure Symposium ‘Cure/Latency/CNS’ at the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference being held in Brisbane next week.

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