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Calimmune Initiates HIV Stem Cell Study at Two California Research Sites

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(Los Angeles, CA) — The HIV gene medicines company Calimmune announced today that the first patient has begun treatment in a Phase I/II clinical trial designed to determine whether a pioneering genetic medicine approach can help to protect individuals infected with HIV from the effects of the virus. The study, “Safety Study of a Dual …

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Groundbreaking Gene Therapy Study Gets The Go-Ahead By The FDA

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Calimmune, a small biotechnology company, is  giving people a low dose chemo agent (as conditioning) and then infusing them with stem cells  that have been modified to inhibit the CCR5 receptor and to contain their own built-in HIV fusion inhibitor peptide, thereby blocking two sites that are essential for HIV infection.   The study is …

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