Understanding the Berlin patient’s unexpected cure

New tool developed to study stem cell transplants as a potential way to treat HIV

By Franny White November 10, 2017 Portland, Oregon

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Shaheed Abdulhaqq, a postdoctoral scientist, works in the Sacha lab, November 3, 2017. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

A new paper by Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., and colleagues at OHSU's Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute and Oregon National Primate Research Center shows that Mauratian macaques can be used as model organisms to explore stem cell transplants as a means to treat and potentially cure HIV. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Jonah Sacha, Ph.D.

Stem cell research

Research associate Jason Reed performs cell culture maintenance in the Sacha lab, at the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, November 3, 2017. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Jonah Sacha, Ph.D.

Jonah Sacha, Ph.D., at OHSU's Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute and Oregon National Primate Research Center. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

Jonah Sacha, Ph.D.