Deconstructing HIV
While scientists have developed ways to treat HIV, they have yet to develop a cure for the devastating disease because they have not been able to kill every last infected cell. “HIV has our immune system’s ‘number,’" Johnson explains. "Our immune system cannot figure out that those are infected cells and that it needs to kill them.”
The UMRB grant helped me build confidence, purchase tools, and fund staff to work in my lab. It gave me a kick-start.