{"id":18279,"date":"2025-03-27T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/?p=18279"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:14:41","slug":"cfar-members-discusses-the-latest-hiv-research-during-croi-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/2025\/03\/cfar-members-discusses-the-latest-hiv-research-during-croi-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"CFAR Members Discuss the Latest HIV Research During CROI 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HIV Cure Research: State of the Art and Navigating Presentations at CROI 2025 with Dr Joseph J. Eron, Jr <\/span><\/i>– <\/span>In this episode of G<\/span>oing Anti-Viral<\/span><\/i>, Dr. Michael Saag speaks with Dr. Joseph Eron, Director of the Clinical Core within the Center for AIDS Research at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, about HIV cure research in anticipation of the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Dr. Eron explains the challenges in developing a cure for HIV, discussing the difference between a complete HIV cure and a functional cure. They explore ongoing research efforts, including strategies to block or lock HIV in human DNA, and the potential role of CRISPR-Cas9 (molecular scissors) in curing HIV. They also preview the cure research presentations at CROI, including Dr. Ole S\u00f8gaard’s plenary on “HIV Cure: A Translational Research Perspective.” For more insight, Dr. Saag references an earlier episode about vaccine development with Dr. Richard Koup. Click<\/span> here<\/span><\/a> to listen to the podcast episode.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nilu Goonetilleke Discusses Latest HIV Research During CROI 2025 <\/span><\/i>– <\/span>Nilu Goonetilleke, PhD, presented two important studies on HIV research during the 2025 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Those studies included; The M&M Study: Age-Related T Cell Response in PWH on ART in MVA.HIVconsvX Vaccine Trial and The CM Study: Bivalent HIV Vaccine Induces Stronger T Cell Responses in PWH on ART. Both studies, which she led alongside first author Cindy Gay, MD, MPH, focused on HIV vaccine trials and their impact on immune responses in people with HIV (PWH) on antiretroviral therapy (ART). To read the full article regarding these two studies click<\/span> here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HIV Cure Research: State of the Art and Navigating Presentations at CROI 2025 with Dr Joseph J. Eron, Jr – In this episode of Going Anti-Viral, Dr. Michael Saag speaks with Dr. Joseph Eron, Director of the Clinical Core within the Center for AIDS Research at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, about HIV … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120087,"featured_media":18287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-9.02.05\u202fAM-1.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-9.02.05\u202fAM-1-300x189.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-9.02.05\u202fAM-1-768x484.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-9.02.05\u202fAM-1.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1380\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-27-at-9.02.05\u202fAM-1-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18290,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18279\/revisions\/18290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/cfar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}