Development of an Assay to Distinguish between Recent and Established HIV-1 Infection

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/395506

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

We have discovered a marker of recent HIV infection. Further refinement of this assay and fully evaluating it on samples from individuals infected with different subtypes of the virus will result in an HIV incidence assay ready for commercialisation. An assay capable of distinguishing between recently acquired and established HIV infection would be most valuable in establishing the incidence of infection for epidemiological surveys, to clearly identify new infections following vaccine trials and identify HIV infection as opposed to transfer of maternal antibodies in new born infants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 01-01-2006

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Development Grants

Funding Amount: $192,500.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Humoural Immunology and Immunochemistry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Diagnostic assay | Early diagnosis | HIV/AIDS | Immune response | Immunoglobulin

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