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Highlight World AIDS Day The theme of this year’s World AIDS Day seminar at ITM was “HIV and youth”. In the morning, scientists reviewed the state of the art in the prevention, treatment and care of HIV in young people. Two young adults living positively with HIV, Tristan from Belgium and Vivian from Kenya, gave their personal testimony. Princess Mathilde at the ITM greeting staff and students on World AIDS Day 2007. 40 | RESEARCH In the afternoon, Princess Mathilde, who is also ambassador for UNICEF and UNAIDS, visited the ITM and met with a group of HIV-affected young people. Adolescents from the African community in Belgium and from a multicultural school in Antwerp held a participatory workshop on HIV-prevention.
Projects For more details, see www.itg.be/projects and fill in the project reference number Unit of Virology Reference number 84210/84211 EMPRO European Microbicide Project ITM Promoter: G. Vanham ITM Collaborator: A. Buvé EMPRO-coordinater: C. Kelly (King’s College London) Support: European Commission Reference number 85101 MMP Development of an association of one or more vaginal microbicidal formulations at the pre-clinical stage. ITM Promoter: G. Vanham MMP-coordinater: L. Belec (INSERM, France) External promoters: G. Van den Mooter, J. Balzarini & D. Schol (KUL, Belgium), S. di Fabio (ISS, Italy) Support: ANRS French National Agency for Research on Aids/Agence nationale de recherches sur le sida Reference number 100107 Research collaboration on microbicides ITM promoter: G. Vanham External promoters: J. Van Roey (Tibotec, Belgium), IPM (International Partnership of Microbiocides Inc.) Support: Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Ireland. Reference number 424402 Sexual Transmission of HIV: viral selection, fitness and adaptation ITM promoter: G. Vanham ITM collaborator: J. Michiels External promoters: M. Temmerman & M. Praet (University of Ghent) Support: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Reference number 414401 Inhibition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) replication ITM promoter: G. Vanham ITM collaborators: E. Van Gulck, D. Atkinson External promoters: Z. Bernemann (Antwerp University, Belgium, coordinator), B. Verhasselt (Ghent University, Belgium), M. Moutschen (University of Liège, Belgium), A-M Vandamme (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium), B. Berkhout (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Support: Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) Reference number 100094 Induction of immunity by dendritic cells in cancer and aids ITM-promoter: G. Vanham ITM-collaborators: K. Vereecken, S. Coppens, Y. Gali External promoters: Z. Berneman, E. Van Gulck and G. Van den Bosch (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Support: University of Antwerp (GOA) Reference number 100183 Enhancement of antiviral immunity in seropositive individuals through vaccination with autologous dendritic cells expressing viral RNA obtained from endogenous quasispecies: preclinical evaluation in macaques ITM-promoter: G. Vanham Support: French National Agency for Research on Aids (AWRS) Reference number 424403 A phase I/II study of therapeutic vaccination with autologous dendritic cells of HIV infected individuals under stable HAART ITM-promoter: G. Vanham External promoters: K. Thielemans (Free University of Brussels, Belgium), Z. Berneman (Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium) Support: Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT) Reference number 100217 Vaccine induced protective cross-neutralisation of HIV-1 ITM promoters: G. Vanham, W. Janssens ITM collaborators: S. Balla-Jhagjhoorsingh, B. Willems, L. Heyndrickx, K. Vereecken, N. Loots External promoters: R.A. Weiss (University College London, United Kingdom), A. McKnight(Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom), J. Heeney and D. Davis (Biomedical Primate Research Centre, The Netherlands), A. Lanzavecchia (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland), Q. Sattentau (University RESEARCH | 41
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