Word: hiv
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...sitting quietly in her lab, Victoria D’Souza, the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Department’s new and only HIV virologist, is doing the actual fighting with the villain behind it all—the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV...
...scary part is that in some of the countries like China, India, and Russia, HIV infection is rapidly on the rise,” D’Souza says with a grim face. “We know what’s happened in Africa and you don’t want the same thing to be repeated in the developing countries...
...Souza’s approach to HIV research is unique because she uses structural biology. Her research focuses on the first step of the viral life cycle of HIV—the process of reverse transcription—in which the virus changes its genome from...
Currently, most anti-HIV drugs target individual proteins, and are given in combination as a cocktail. However, according to D’Souza, HIV is mutating and building up resistance to the cocktail. By studying the RNA-protein complex, which is crucial to the virus’ survival, D’Souza aims to sophisticate the current approach to AIDS treatment...
...Souza says she would not be able to tear herself away from virology even if she were not doing HIV research, because of her love for microbes...