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ReviewAIDS research and human retroviruses2013

HIV vaccine development: strategies for preclinical and clinical investigation.

Stuart Z Shapiro

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Review in AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stuart Z ShapiroVaccine Research Program, Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , Bethesda, Maryland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article discusses HIV vaccine discovery and candidate vaccine testing in the context of current realities of funding and clinical trial practice. Lacking perfect animal models for testing candidate HIV vaccines, clinical investigators have proposed a strategy of iterative exploratory clinical trials in the model of cancer chemotherapy development. Problems with the appropriateness of this model to HIV vaccine development are discussed. Also, the future feasibility of this strategy in the context of increasing clinical trial costs and emerging new, efficacious prevention modalities is questioned. Strategies for making better use of animal models are presented as an alternative to iterative exploratory clinical efficacy testing. Some ways in which better data from preclinical studies can refine clinical product development are described. Finally, development of an HIV vaccine under the FDA's "Animal Rule" pathway to licensure when human efficacy studies are not feasible is discussed as a fall-back approach. Not making a preventive vaccine against HIV infection is simply not an option because eradication of AIDS will require a preventive vaccine.

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AIDS VaccinesAnimalsDrug DiscoveryDrug EvaluationDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHIV InfectionsHumansModels, AnimalAIDS Vaccines

Identifiers

PMID23379343
PMCPMC3809608

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