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“We hope that within a few years trials can be started for a therapeutic vaccine,” Knipe said.
“The hurdles are similar,” he said, “but this doesn’t immediately tell us how to make an AIDS vaccine.”
Knipe said that it will still take several years for the vaccine to be cleared for public use. He noted that failed herpes vaccines have made drug companies wary of investing in human testing, but that new, positive data for his vaccine will make it a more viable candidate.
The vaccine will undergo two types of clinical trials, Knipe said. The first will be a therapeutic trial with people who have already contracted herpes, to see if the vaccine can reduce the infection, while the second will test its preventative capacity in people without the disease.
Knipe noted that therapeutic trials are generally easier to run because they require fewer people and take less time. He said that there has already been a huge demand for the vaccine, and that he has received e-mails from patients willing to volunteer for trials and doctors eager to...