Overview
Provides a broad overview to the attempts to design a preventive HIV vaccine
Broadens the understanding of reasons for the failure to develop a preventive HIV vaccine
Includes numerous critical comments from an actual point of view
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The Search for a Preventive HIV Vaccine
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About this book
This book gathers a series of pivotal papers on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine published in the last two decades. Accompanied by extensive comments putting the material into an up-to-date context, all three parts of the book offer a broad overview of the numerous unsuccessful attempts made in recent years to develop a preventive HIV vaccine. Providing a detailed review and analysis of studies published from 1998 to the present day, it examines the likely reasons for the failure to develop an HIV vaccine despite multi-million dollar investments.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marc Van Regenmortel was a Professor of Virology at various Universities in South Africa (Stellenbosch and Cape Town) and France (Strasbourg), and was head of the Immunochemistry Laboratory at the CNRS Molecular Biology Institute in Strasbourg for 22 years. He served as President of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses and published a dozen books and 420 papers and reviews on the immunochemistry of peptides and viruses, viral taxonomy and biosensor technology. He was an advisor to the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative and is currently an associate editor of Journal of Molecular Recognition, Archives of Virology, Advances in Virus Research, Journal of Immunological Methods, Analytical Biochemistry and Frontiers in Immunology.
He is an Adjunct Professor of the Medical University of Vienna.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: HIV/AIDS: Immunochemistry, Reductionism and Vaccine Design
Book Subtitle: A Review of 20 Years of Research
Authors: Marc H V Van Regenmortel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32459-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32458-2Published: 10 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32461-2Published: 10 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32459-9Published: 26 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 364
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour