Penn-Wistar team gains insight into HIV vaccine failure
Monday, July 20, 2009 - 12:36
in Health & Medicine
PHILADELPHIA -- (July 20, 2009) -- A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania reports new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized failure in 2007 of the Merck STEP HIV vaccine study that cast doubt on the feasibility of HIV-1 vaccines. The findings were published on-line July 20 in Nature Medicine.