title: Progress towards development of an HIV vaccine: report of the AIDS Vaccine 2009 Conference.
abstract: The search for an HIV/AIDS vaccine is steadily moving ahead, generating and validating new concepts in terms of novel vectors for antigen delivery and presentation, new vaccine and adjuvant strategies, alternative approaches to design HIV-1 antigens for eliciting protective cross-neutralising antibodies, and identification of key mechanisms in HIV infection and modulation of the immune system. All these different perspectives are contributing to the unprecedented challenge of developing a protective HIV-1 vaccine. The high scientific value of this massive effort is its great impact on vaccinology as a whole, providing invaluable scientific information for the current and future development of new preventive vaccine as well as therapeutic knowledge-based infectious-disease and cancer vaccines.
authors.affiliation: HIV Vaccine Research Unit, French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anna Laura
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bråve
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scarlatti
authors.forename: Amapola
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Manrique
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Buonaguro
mesh_terms: D016915:AIDS Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D057134:Antibodies, Neutralizing / Q000276:immunology; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000639:trends*; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D014611:Vaccination / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D016915:AIDS Vaccines; D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D057134:Antibodies, Neutralizing; D015483:HIV Antibodies