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Research reveals workings of anti-HIV drugs
Fri., December 19, 2008
Using ingenious molecular espionage, scientists have found how a single key enzyme, seemingly the Swiss Army knife in HIV’s toolbox, differentiates and dynamically binds both DNA and RNA as part of the virus’s fierce attack on host cells. The work is described this week (May 7) in the journal Nature.
An HIV Enzyme with a Flair for the Acrobatic
Fri., December 19, 2008
Call it the bullet train of enzymes. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have found that HIV reverse transcriptase exhibits a stunning display of enzymatic dynamics as it zooms back and forth on the very DNA it is building. Each of the DNA's two strands serves as a rail, with reverse transcriptase - an enzyme crucial to HIV's replication and survival - racing to the end of the rails so it can continue to extend them.
2008 Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award in Virology
Fri., December 19, 2008
Sriram Subramaniam, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cell Biology
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Robert Blumenthal, PhD
2008 Mentor of Merit
Jay Arthur Berzofsky, M.D., Ph.D.
2008 NCI Director’s award
S. Khleif, MD, (NCI, PI), Berzofsky, MD, PhD and J. Qian,
PhD (NCI, AI), and extramural collaborators J. Lucci III, MD (Univ. of Miami) and
J. Walker, MD (Univ. of Oklahoma)
2007 Bench to Bedside Award (Women’s Health Category)
Prevention of HIV/AIDS & HIV Immunobiology: From Infection to Immune Control
March 22, 2009 - March 27, 2009
Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado
Organizers for Prevention of HIV/AIDS: Brigitte Autran and Scott M. Hammer
Deadlines: Abstract & Scholarship – Nov 24, ‘08 / Late Abstract – Dec 22, ‘08 / Early Registration – Jan 22, ‘09
Organizers for HIV Immunobiology: From Infection to Immune Control: Didier Trono, Dana H. Gabuzda and Robert F. Siliciano
Deadlines: Abstract & Scholarship – Nov 24, ‘08 / Late Abstract – Dec 22, ‘08 / Early Registration – Jan 22, ‘09
Joint meeting