The working group of Prof. Jörg Janne Vehreschild in Köln cooperates with the Robert Koch Institute. To pave the way for the upcoming challenges in HIV research, the Translational Platform was founded in 2015. It supports clinical and epidemiological cohort studies in HIV. The platform provides protocols, software, databases, biobanking [...]
The project “Clinical cohorts for HIV remission” will continue and expand ongoing research around the treatment of primary HIV infection (TopHIV) Cohort of patients with acute HIV infection. Beyond studies about their immune responses and reservoir formation, selected TopHIV individuals will be enrolled into interventional clinical trials using immune modulators [...]