Pharmacy prof says new AIDS drug shows potential

Release Date: February 7, 2006 This content is archived.

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An article distributed by UPI on new experimental drugs designed to target different mechanisms of HIV reports the drug the furthest down the road to clinical use, PA-457, dramatically wiped out about 95 percent of the circulating virus by itself, according to Patrick Smith, associate professor of pharmacy, who presented his report at the 13th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Go to article.

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