Areas of Research: HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C
The areas of research of highest priority for support in 2011-2013 are listed below. Collaboration with other National Centres for HIV and hepatitis research are strongly encouraged.
- Vaccines
1. Development of vaccine candidates to the stage of clinical trials or commercial development, together with the capacity to measure appropriate immunological outcomes in phase 1 and 2 trials.
2. Development of animal model systems to test candidate HIV, HBV and HCV vaccines.
3. Development of therapeutic vaccines.
- Antiviral Targets
1. Development of drug targets
2. Development of topical microbicides
- Diagnostics and Prognostics
1. New diagnostics for monitoring treatment programs in resource-poor regions.
2. Novel prognostics.
3. Pharmacogenomics.
4. Molecular virology tools for tracking the epidemics.
5. Laboratory tools to enable the assessment of drug toxicityselee