People astir the globe volition observe World AIDS Day connected December 1 to amusement enactment for radical surviving with HIV and to commemorate those who person passed distant from an AIDS-related illness.
The University of Minnesota Medical School is 1 of the fewer sites successful the United States conducting objective trials for HIV/AIDS utilizing cell-based therapies. Experts Tim Schacker, MD, and Joshua Rhein, MD, talk astir the U of M Medical School’s relation successful driving for a cure.
Tim Schacker, MD
“Faculty astatine the University of Minnesota Medical School person the quality to survey the HIV microorganism wherever it lives successful lymphatic insubstantial reservoirs. This specialized method was developed by infectious illness physicians successful collaboration with our skilled surgeons, who are present sharing the imaginable and interaction of this survey focus. University module person trained scientists astir the satellite successful however to safely illustration lymphatic insubstantial reservoirs.”
“With a bequest of spot successful cell-based therapies stretching backmost to aboriginal occurrence with humor and marrow transplantation for cancers, enactment has progressed to processing caller trials for a scope of conditions, which present includes HIV/AIDS. Today, our physician-scientists proceed to propulsion the boundaries connected the imaginable curative relation of cell-based therapy to dainty HIV. This attack aims to reconstruct important parts of the immune strategy damaged by HIV infection.”
Joshua Rhein, MD
“In the past 10 years, we person enrolled much than 200 participants successful objective trials, collecting much than 1,500 biopsies to recognize however HIV works successful the lymphatic system. Right now, we person 2 trials enrolling participants to recognize however inflammation contributes to HIV persistence, and the different to trial the efficacy of NK cells.”
Contacts
Tim Schacker, MD
Vice dean for probe and programme manager successful HIV Medicine astatine the U of M Medical School.
Contact: [email protected]
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Tim Schacker, MD, is the vice dean for probe and programme manager successful HIV Medicine astatine the U of M Medical School. He has expertise successful the factors that summation the likelihood and ratio of HIV transmission and T compartment homeostasis successful HIV-1 infected persons.
Joshua Rhein, MD
Assistant prof astatine the U of M Medical School
Contact: [email protected]
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Joshua Rhein, MD, is an adjunct prof of medicine astatine the U of M Medical School. He has a wide inheritance successful planetary wellness and infectious diseases, with superior expertise successful cryptococcal meningitis and different AIDS-related opportunistic infections. He has been an researcher connected respective large, guideline-informing objective trials connected HIV-associated meningitis.
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