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June 7, 2011
Battling HIV/AIDS
Thirty years ago, when the world was just coming to grips with the first reported case of AIDS in North America, no one was seriously studying the disease or HIV, says Jamie Scott. The SFU professor of molecular biology and biochemistry says she didn’t start her work on finding a vaccine for HIV until about 1999. Scott can discuss where she is in her research now and her belief that HIV/AIDS will only be beat once scientists have nailed down a three-pronged attack on the virus and the disease. “A cure will only be achieved once we can detect latently HIV infected cells, stop viral replication in newly infected cells and administer a vaccine to prevent infection,” notes Scott.
Jamie Scott, 778.782.5658, jkscott@sfu.ca
Thirty years ago, when the world was just coming to grips with the first reported case of AIDS in North America, no one was seriously studying the disease or HIV, says Jamie Scott. The SFU professor of molecular biology and biochemistry says she didn’t start her work on finding a vaccine for HIV until about 1999. Scott can discuss where she is in her research now and her belief that HIV/AIDS will only be beat once scientists have nailed down a three-pronged attack on the virus and the disease. “A cure will only be achieved once we can detect latently HIV infected cells, stop viral replication in newly infected cells and administer a vaccine to prevent infection,” notes Scott.
Jamie Scott, 778.782.5658, jkscott@sfu.ca