The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation recently awarded a $6 million grant to researchers at Emory
University to find an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine.
The grant was part of the
Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery, an international network of
researchers working on a variety of HIV vaccination candidates with the goal of
advancing the most promising candidates.
Dr. Bali Pulendran will lead the
Emory team, which includes researchers from the Emory Vaccine Center and the
Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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