573 | Building Towards Next-Generation Vaccines for HIV
This week, MSc (PhD-intended!) candidate Alexander Gain talks about his research on modelling and testing immune responses to different HIV vaccines.
Although current treatments help keep the virus at bay, this requires people living with HIV to take anti-viral medication for the rest of their lives. Building a preventative vaccine could allow for people to experience a better quality of life, but requires a lot of tricky planning and overcoming experimental constraints.
How does one even start to design HIV vaccines that can hopefully work across different HIV variants? What sort of models…
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