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Meds, Mind, Body & Benefits => Research News & Studies => Topic started by: Tadeys on October 04, 2013, 07:41:47 pm

Title: Gladstone lab uncovers a potential HIV cure — and it's a Drug.
Post by: Tadeys on October 04, 2013, 07:41:47 pm

Monkeys' evolutionary protection against a virus similar to HIV may be mimicked by a drug sitting on a biotech company's shelf, says a Gladstone Institutes researcher who wants to take the drug into clinical trials.

The drug proved safe in a Phase II trial looking at chronic inflammation as the cause of seizures but did not reduce seizure activity to the point the unidentified company thought it would be commercially successful. But Dr. Warner Greene, director of virology and immunology research at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, said the drug could offer a functional cure for deadly HIV.

Once Gladstone negotiates the right to use the drug with the U.S.-based company, Greene said, a clinical trial could be up and running within six to 12 months.

Read more here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/biotech/2013/10/hiv-aids-warner-greene-gladstone-caspase.html