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ArticleJournal of virus eradication

The EPIICAL project: an emerging global collaboration to investigate immunotherapeutic strategies in HIV-infected children.

P Palma, C Foster, P Rojo, P Zangari, A Yates, N Cotugno, N Klein, K Luzuriaga, S Pahwa, E Nastouli and 14 more

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors at 14 institutions in 7 countries.

P PalmaUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
C FosterImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
P RojoDepartment of Pediatrics, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
P ZangariUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy ; Chair of Pediatrics, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy.
A YatesInstitute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
N CotugnoUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy ; Chair of Pediatrics, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy.
N KleinInstitute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK.
K LuzuriagaProgram in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA, USA.
S PahwaMiami Center for AIDS Research Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
E NastouliDepartment of Virology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
D M GibbMRC Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK.
W BorkowskyNYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
S BernardiUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
V CalvezPierre et Marie Curie University and Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France.
E MannoUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy ; Chair of Pediatrics, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy.
Nadia MoraUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy.
A CompagnucciINSERM SC10-US019 Clinical Trials and Infectious Diseases, Villejuif Paris, France.
B WahrenDepartment of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Má Muñoz-FernándezDepartment of Molecular ImmunoBiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, Spain.
A De RossiSection of Oncology and Immunology, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology-DiSCOG, University of Padova & Istituto Oncologico Veneto(IOV)-IRCCS, Padova Padova, Italy.
J AnanworanichUS Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Maryland, USA.
D PillayAfrica Centre, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
C GiaquintoDepartment of Women's and Child's Health, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, University of Padova and PENTA Foundation, Italy.
P RossiUniversity Department of Pediatrics, Unit of Immune and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy ; Chair of Pediatrics, Department of Systems Medicine, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy.
Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital · ITUniversity College London · GBHospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón · ESImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · GBInserm · FRIstituto Oncologico Veneto · ITKarolinska Institutet · SEMRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL · GBNew York University · USPitié-Salpêtrière Hospital · FRResearch Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre · ESUniversity of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · USUniversity of Miami · USWellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology · GB

Funding

University of Miami Developmental Center for AIDS Research (D-CFAR)P30AI073961 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ALLAN E RODRIGUEZ · 2007 to 2026
$33.8M
The Latent HIV Reservoir in Early-treated Thai ChildrenR01AI114236 · NIAID · HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · PI PUTHANAKIT, THANYAWEE, ROBB, MERLIN L · 2014 to 2018
$2.8M
Medical Research Council MC_UU_12023/26NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI073961NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The EPIICAL (Early-treated Perinatally HIV-infected Individuals: Improving Children's Actual Life with Novel Immunotherapeutic Strategies) project arises from the firm belief that perinatally infected children treated with suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) from early infancy represent the optimal population model in which to study novel immunotherapeutic strategies aimed at achieving ART-free remission. This is because HIV-infected infants treated within 2-3 months of life have a much reduced viral reservoir size, and rarely show HIV-specific immunity but preserve normal immune development. The goal of EPIICAL is the establishment of an international collaboration to develop a predictive platform using this model to select promising HIV therapeutic vaccine candidates, leading to prioritisation or deprioritisation of novel immunotherapeutic strategies. To establish this platform, the EPIICAL Consortium aims to: develop predictive models of virological and immunological dynamics associated with response to early ART and to treatment interruption using available data from existing cohorts/studies of early-treated perinatally HIV-infected children; optimise methodologies to better characterise immunological, virological and genomic correlates/profiles associated with viral control; test novel immunotherapeutic strategies using

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childrenearly treatedHIVimmunotherapiestherapeutic vaccines

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PMID26893908
PMCPMC4755515
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