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- 17/06/2015
A study highlights the need for alternative drugs in Africa for patients who develop resistance to HIV drugs
A study led by researchers at ISGlobal and IrsiCaixa concludes that antiretroviral treatment is not effective in 24% of HIV patients in Manhiça (Mozambique); 89% of these cases are due to...
- 05/06/2015
Five molecules for future international studies on CFS have been identified
IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute researchers compared samples from patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and healthy people in order to discover new diagnostic tools. Currently, the detection...
- 04/06/2015
A new technique reveals ‘viral history’ in a single blood test
VirScan is a high-throughput method to comprehensively analyze antiviral antibodies in the blood, in order to discover what virus someone has been exposed to throughout his life. Besides its...
- 20/05/2015
IrsiCaixa leads the first umbilical cord stem cells transplantation resistant to HIV infection in a patient with severe blood disease
‘Lancet HIV’ journal publishes the case “Barcelona Patient”, who suffered from lymphoma and had an umbilical cord stem cells transplantation with a HIV-resistant mutation. The transplantation...
- 18/05/2015
IrsiCaixa prepares the start of clinical trials of therapeutic AIDS vaccine
The therapeutic vaccine designed by IrsiCaixa researchers is the very first one developed according to the immune response of people who control HIV without antiretroviral treatment. Phase I trials...
- 07/05/2015
IrsiCaixa researchers prove that HIV uses a family of immune system cells as a "Trojan horse" to spread out the infection
Scientists from IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, jointly promoted by the Obra Social "la Caixa" and the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya, have proved that a family of immune system...
- 16/03/2015
IrsiCaixa carries out a study on the incidence and prevalence of STIs in men who have sex with men and transgender women
The study is a collaboration between the Institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa, promoted by "la Caixa" Foundation and the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the community center BCN...
- 17/02/2015
More than 200 students participate in the opening conference of the XXIX Scientific Conference of Badalona on AIDS dissemination and prevention
• A talk by Alba Ruiz, a researcher at the Institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa , and a discussion on the ways of transmission of HIV / AIDS have triggered the Conference of Scientific Secondary...
- 26/11/2014
IrsiCaixa leads an international research consortium to reproduce the only successful case of a person cured of HIV
European researchers led by the Institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa, in Barcelona, jointly funded by “la Caixa” Foundation and the Government of Catalonia Department of Health, and the...
- 14/10/2014
A study led by IrsiCaixa on people who are regularly exposed to HIV but remain unifected give new clues for the vaccine development
Researchers at the Institute for AIDS Research IrsiCaixa have studied the causes why some people highly exposed to the HIV virus do not become infected. They have developed a novel technique that...
