MHRP and collaborators will present the following abstracts at the IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019) taking place July 21-24 in Mexico City (bolded names are MHRP researchers):
Julie Ake (oral abstract session co-chair), HIV vaccines: Light at the end of the tunnel?
Hiroshi Takata*, "Early ART initiation in acute HIV infection generates long-lived memory HIV-specific CD8+ T cells endowed with efficient proliferative and cytolytic recall response"
Allahna Esber, "Temporal trends in HIV-related self-reported stigma in the African Cohort Study, 2013-2018"
Hongshuo Song, "Identification and characterization of a CXCR4-tropic transmitted/founder HIV-1 in an acute CRF01_AE infection"
Hendrik Streeck*, "Prospective, multicenter study to assess point prevalence, incidence and recurrence of sexually transmitted infections in men who have sex with men in Germany: BRAHMS study"
Tanyaporn Wansom*, "Crystal methamphetamine and group sex fuel an explosive epidemic of hepatitis C among Thai MSM with HIV"
Frank Tomaka*, "Two-year post-vaccination follow-up from APPROACH: Phase 1/2a randomized study evaluating safety and immunogenicity of prophylactic HIV vaccine regimens combining Ad26.Mos.HIV and gp140 envelope protein"
Daniel J. Stieh*, "ASCENT: Phase 2a, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study evaluating safety and immunogenicity of two HIV-1 prophylactic vaccine regimens comprising Ad26.Mos4.HIV and either clade C gp140 or bivalent gp140"
Lyle McKinnon*, "Preferential infection of α4β7+ CD4+ T cells in early acute HIV-1 infection"
Anchalee Avihingsanon, "Determinants of sub-optimal immune response after antiretroviral therapy initiation in HIV-1 infection"
Anchalee Avihingsanon, "Identification of biomarkers to predict disease progression at time of TB diagnosis"
Michael J. Peluso, "Abnormal liver function tests are common during acute HIV infection, correlate with HIV viral load, and do not persist in individuals initiating antiretroviral therapy"
Remi Fromentin, "Large in vivo expansion and subsequent partial contraction of a T cell clone carrying a defective HIV genome reflect the dynamics of the HIV reservoir during ART"
* - oral abstract or poster discussion