HIV vaccine nears clinical trial following new findings

Weakened form of vaccine still eliminates HIV-like virus in monkeys

By Franny White July 17, 2019 Portland, Oregon

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Research assistant Teresa Beechwood, in the Frueh Research Lab at the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, Jan. 11, 2019. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)

OHSU Picker VGTI

Louis Picker, M.D., of the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, June 29, 2016. (OHSU/Boone Speed Photography)

OHSU Picker VGTI

Researchers process blood samples in Dr. Louis Picker’s lab. (OHSU/Boone Speed Photography)

Klaus Früh, Ph.D. (OHSU)

Louis Picker, M.D.

Louis J. Picker, M.D., associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and professor of pathology, molecular microbiology and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine. (OHSU)