Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP100100242

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP100100242

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Can an anti-HIV gene in blood stem cells protect from immune depletion by HIV? Approximately 15,000 individuals in Australia are currently HIV infected. Gene therapy has the capacity to remove antiretroviral treatment related issues, dramatically decrease treatment costs and simplify treatment of HIV. In this study we will model a new approach to treat HIV in which the patient's own cells are used as the therapy by incorporating an anti-HIV gene. These cells are then re-introduced into the patient. The strong mathematical focus of this project, and its application to a promising approach against HIV, will place Australia at the forefront of the mathematics of gene research and contribute to the National Priority Area of Promoting and Maintaining Good Health and the Priority Goal of Preventative Healthcare.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 15-02-2010

End Date: 14-02-2013

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $360,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Mathematics | Infectious Diseases | Applied Mathematics | Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Infectious diseases | Mathematical sciences |

Other Keywords

Applied Mathematics | Biological Mathematics | Infectious Diseases | Infectious diseases | Mathematical sciences | Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified

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