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IMAGE: Madan, a postdoctoral researcher in the DeKosky lab at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, headed research into potential of the vFP16.02 antibody
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Credit: Matheus Oliveira de Souza
LAWRENCE -- Much like coronavirus, circulating HIV-1 viruses mutate into diverse variants that pose challenges for scientists developing vaccines to protect people from HIV/AIDS.
"AIDS vaccine development has been a decades-long challenge partly because our immune systems have difficulty recognizing all the diverse variants of the rapidly mutating HIV virus, which is the cause of AIDS," said Brandon DeKosky, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry and chemical & petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas.