Phase I AIDS Vaccine Trial

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Dear FORUM,

lET ME congratulate Dr. V D Ramanathan   Director , Tuberculosis Research Centre

( TRC) , Chennai & Dr Sekhar Chakravorty of ICMR , Kolkata , for your effort in

successful Phase I trial of the MVA-based

AIDS vaccine candidate (TBC - M4) trial  in TRC in Chennai.

Preliminary results of phase one trial have successfully proved the vaccine's

safety and its ability to stimulate immune response. The vaccine being tested in

Chennai has been designed by Dr Sekhar Chakravorty , a Kolkata-based ICMR

scientist.

The phase one trial of the vaccine at TRC, which began in January 2006, was

conducted on about 30 healthy HIV negative volunteers

Dr S I Ahmed

e-mail: <siahmed60@...>