• Shimian Zou, Simone Glynn, Daniel Kuritzkes, Monica Shah, Nakela Cook, Nancy Berliner, and NHLBI AIDS Blood Session Working Group.
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; and.
• Blood. 2013 Oct 31;122(18):3111-5.

AbstractThe report of the so-called Berlin patient cured of HIV with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and a few other studies raised tremendous hope, excitement, and curiosity in the field. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health convened a Working Group to address emerging heart, lung, and blood research priorities related to HIV infection. Hematopoietic cells could contribute to HIV cure through allogeneic or autologous transplantation of naturally occurring or engineered cells with anti-HIV moieties. Protection of central memory T cells from HIV infection could be a critical determinant of achieving a functional cure. HIV cure can only be achieved if the virus is eradicated from reservoirs in resting T cells and possibly other hematopoietic cells. The Working Group recommended multidisciplinary efforts leveraging HIV and cell therapy expertise to answer the critical need to support research toward an HIV cure.

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