Vaccine For AIDS Within Four Years!!!!!!!

by **J The Kidd** Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:16 am

A
French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering
the AIDS virus immediately predicted there would be a "therapeutic
vaccine'' for the disease within four years. Luc Montagnier, director
of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, shared half
the award with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi of the Institut Pasteur for
their work in pinpointing the cause of the disease.

The other half was won by
Harald zur Hausen of the University of Dusseldorf and a former director
of the German Cancer Research Centre, for work on the cause of cervical
cancer. On receiving the honor, which comes with a cash prize of just
over €1m, Montagnier, 76, said a treatment could be possible in the future with a "therapeutic'' rather than preventive vaccine for which
results might be published in three or four years if financial backing
is forthcoming.

A therapeutic vaccine prevents disease from flourishing after it has taken hold. "I think it will be
possible with a therapeutic vaccine rather than preventative
vaccinations. We would give it to people who are already infected,'' he
said. The Nobel recognition comes
25 years after Montagnier and his team at the French Pasteur Institute,
including Barre-Sinoussi, discovered HIV in his Paris laboratory.

"The discovery was one
prerequisite for the current understanding of the biology of the
disease and its antiretroviral treatment,'' the Nobel Assembly of
Sweden's Karolinska Institute said in a statement.

The other half of the Nobel
prize was awarded for the German scientist's research that "went
against current dogma'' and set forth that oncogenic human papilloma
virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among
women.

"His discovery has led to
characterization of the natural history of HPV infection, an
understanding of mechanisms of HPV-induced carcinogenesis and the
development of prophylactic vaccines against HPV acquisition,'' the
Assembly said. Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes
awarded each year.

The prizes for achievement
in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in
accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred
Nobel.

The economics prize is a later addition, established by the Swedish Riksbank in 1968.