Author: Joseph A Politch
Microbicide Development Hinges on New Products Administered in New Ways (Article in IAVI Report, 2015, Issue 4)
Non-specific or antiretroviral-based vaginal gels failed to work but new formulations offer hope. For entire article, click here.
Block That Sperm! (The Atlantic Magazine, March, 2015)
Antibodies from plants: By inserting human genes into plants, scientists have been able to create disease-fighting proteins called “plantibodies,” which work just like the antibodies that the human immune system makes to ward off infections. Harvesting such proteins from plants—many plantibody researchers work with tobacco—is far cheaper than growing them in human cell cultures.(The world […]
Plantibodies Could Pave the Road to Wellness (Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2014)
One day, women everywhere may dissolve a postage-stamp sized piece of translucent film in their vaginas. It might look like a Listerine strip. It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg. It might also halt the HIV and herpes viruses found in semen […]
Cell-Associated HIV Mucosal Transmission: The Neglected Pathway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2014 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, ginad@bu.edu (Boston)—Dr. Deborah Anderson from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and her colleagues are challenging dogma about the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Most research has focused on infection by free viral particles, while this group proposes that HIV is also […]
Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (MPTS) Initiative
New Prevention Will Simultaneously Reduce HIV, STIs and Unplanned Pregnancy Infographic Release: MPTs for Comprehensive Reproductive Health Sacramento, CA: Following the announcement of President Obama’s significant commitment of $100 million for HIV/AIDS treatment research, funding that will bring us closer to a cure, an international collaboration of health experts, researchers and funders today called […]
International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (ISIR)
The 12th Congress of the International Society for Immunology of Reproduction (ISIR), hosted by the American Society for Reproductive Immunology (ASRI), will be held in Boston, Massachusetts USA from May 28-June 1, 2013. This will be an outstanding opportunity to facilitate communication and collaborative work not only of reproductive immunologists from the Americas, but also with […]
PLANT-BASED VACCINES & ANTIBODIES 2013
PLANT-BASED VACCINES & ANTIBODIES 2013 is scheduled for 5-7 June 2013 at the University of Verona in Italy. PBVA 2013 is the fifth conference in this important series – again chaired by Dr. Julian Ma (St. George’s University of London). See website for participation and registration.
Bostonia Magazine Article on IPCP
Bostonia Magazine published an article on the IPCP project in its Summer 2012 issue.
Microbicides 2012
The 2012 International Microbicides Conference: From Discovery to Delivery, with state of the art plenary lectures on microbicides and other aspects of HIV prevention research, cross-disciplinary symposia, oral abstracts, and poster sessions, was held in Sydney, Australia, from April 15-18, 2012.