HIV Vaccine

One of the diseases we look at during our ICORE: Emerging Pathogens program is HIV. Another timely disease for our 2009 program was H1N1. Recently, a talk presented by Seth Berkley discussed some fascinating research taking place to create a universal flu vaccine as well as an HIV vaccine. Our ICORE teachers had the opportunity to hear from Dr. Janet Yamamoto who created a vaccine for the feline version of HIV. She too was optimistic that an HIV vaccine is on the horizon.

This 20 minute presentation is well worth viewing. It would be a great addition to the classroom.

There is also a follow-up discussion with Dr. Berkley on the TED Blog.



http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_berkley_hiv_and_flu_the_vaccine_strategy.html