Danilo R. Casimiro

TL;DR: The replication-defective adenovirus is a promising vaccine vector for development of an HIV-1 vaccine and elicited by a replication-incompetent Ad5 vector, used either alone or as a booster inoculation after priming with a DNA vector.

TL;DR: The protective efficacy of vaccine-elicited immune responses against a pathogenic SHIV-89.6P challenge in rhesus monkeys is reported, with no evidence of clinical disease or mortality after challenge.

TL;DR: Consistent with previous trials, the MRKAd5 HIV-1 gag/pol/nef vaccine was highly immunogenic for inducing HIV-specific CD8+ T cells and suggest that future candidate vaccines have to elicit responses that either exceed in magnitude or differ in breadth or function from those recorded in this trial.

TL;DR: The finding that intravenous BCG prevents or substantially limits Mtb infection in highly susceptible rhesus macaques has important implications for vaccine delivery and clinical development, and provides a model for defining immune correlates and mechanisms of vaccine-elicited protection against tuberculosis.

TL;DR: These studies demonstrate integrase inhibitor activity in vivo and suggest that cellular immunity facilitates chemotherapeutic efficacy in retroviral infections.