Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have been awarded a $3 million federal grant to develop and test a new generation of treatments aimed at preventing sexual transmission of HIV to uninfected individuals. … Read more
Angela Kashuba, PharmD, is concerned that the current approach to developing drug therapies to prevent HIV infection is backwards. “We know that administering large doses of HIV drugs in animal models can prevent infection, but this information doesn’t directly help … Read more
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded a five-year, $32 million federal grant to develop ways to cure people with HIV by purging the virus hiding in the immune systems of patients taking antiretroviral … Read more
Sam Lai, PhD, has been honored with an AACP New Faculty Award and has received a $400,000 grant from NIAID to explore trapping HIV in mucus as a way of preventing infection. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy New Faculty … Read more
Development of an AIDS vaccine is struggling. Topical treatments aimed at stopping HIV have made little progress. Angela Kashuba, PharmD, believes that antiretroviral drugs are the best hope for halting the spread of AIDS, especially in the developing world. “I … Read more
