SBS Core Member Highlight: Lauren Pacek, PhD
From the beginning of her career, Dr. Lauren Pacek has been interested in conducting research with vulnerable populations. During her undergraduate program, she volunteered in a professor’s lab where the focus was on smoking cessation. Then, in graduate school, she began working with populations living with HIV. Today, Dr. Pacek is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in Duke’s School of Medicine.
Immune System Can be Coaxed into Selecting Key Antibodies to Fight HIV
DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers have cleared a major obstacle in the development of an HIV vaccine, proving in animal models that effective, yet short-lasting antibodies can be coaxed into multiplying as a fighting force against the virus.
The finding, led by a team of researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) and Boston Children’s Hospital, publishes online Dec. 5.
Durham County Signs Paris Declaration on Fast-Track Cities Ending the AIDS Epidemic
Durham, NC –Board of County Commissioners Chair Wendy Jacobs signed on to the Fast-Track Cities Paris Declaration to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030 at the Board’s regular meeting on Monday, August 12th.