Aussie Scientist David Harrich Develops a Potential Therapy for
HIV Australian researcher David Harrich is currently in the
important stages of his study and development of a potential
treatment for HIV to stop it from progressing to AIDS. The
following insights will tell you more about it. Queensland
(I-Newswire) January 30, 2013 - An associate professor at
Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR), David Harrich
is in the process of improving a certain protein that stops HIV
from developing into AIDS. Accordingly, it cannot guarantee a
cure; instead, it keeps the infection dormant. “The virus might
infect a cell but it wouldn't spread”, he said in an interview.
"You would still be infected with HIV, it's not a cure. But the
virus would stay latent, it wouldn't wake up, so it wouldn't
develop into AIDS" he added. Prof Harris stated that the
enhanced protein prevented HIV from spreading in three ways
using gene therapy. This involved taking cells, also called T
cells, from a human immune system. Pre-cli