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ArticleAIDS research and human retroviruses2015

A proposal to use iterative, small clinical trials to optimize therapeutic HIV vaccine immunogens to launch therapeutic HIV vaccine development.

Stuart Z Shapiro

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Article in AIDS research and human retroviruses, 2015. 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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4citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. T cell-based strategies for HIV-1 vaccines.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

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

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HIV cure agenda has rekindled interest in the development of a therapeutic HIV vaccine. An iterative clinical trial strategy that proved successful for the development of effective cancer chemotherapies in the 1960s may be applicable to the development of a CD8 T lymphocyte-based therapeutic HIV vaccine. However, while cancer chemotherapy development could begin with iterative clinical trials to improve the use of active drugs, the first step in therapeutic HIV vaccine design should be discovery of immunogen constructs with potential for activity and their optimization to meet the challenges of HIV-1 sequence diversity and human polymorphism in T cell antigen presentation. A strategy for doing this is discussed in this article. The proposed strategy relies on a major commitment by funding organizations to fund organized and coordinated manufacture and clinical testing of a series of first- and second-generation constructs to test basic concepts in product design. This is presented as an alternative to funding a more traditional competition among private manufacturers and product champions of individual, already designed products.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAIDS VaccinesAntibodies, MonoclonalCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesDrug DesignHIV-1HIV AntigensHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveAIDS VaccinesAntibodies, MonoclonalHIV Antigens

Identifiers

PMID25286142
PMCPMC4287111
OpenAlexW2317725197

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