Using HIV to attack itself

Media issued by the Queensland Institute of Medical Research

Associate Professor David Harrich, from QIMR’s Molecular Virology Laboratory, has determined how to modify a protein in the HIV virus, so that it instead  provides strong, lasting protection from infection.

Associate Professor Harrich has been researching HIV for thirty years, since starting as a research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the early 1980s.

An Australian Research Council Future Fellowship funds Professor Harrich’s research.

 

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