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Dear Friend,

I would like to thank all of you for your interest in ARA. Your support helped us to expand our research lab and allows me to continue our research on the HIV reservoirs by using the leukapheresis samples and prostratin.

Over the last 3 months we gathered the required reagents to study prostratin’s effect on the HIV reservoirs, and expanded our scientific approach by including other cell types that play a large role in HIV latency. To be able to study other types of reservoir cells, we received a model virus from a new collaborator at John Hopkins University and will start the research experiments next week.

Furthermore, we have the incubators running, and started the cell lines for the FDA-required experiments. This is exciting progress, and I am very much looking forward to sharing our results and future progress with you.

Thank you very much!

Stefanie 

Dr. Homann earned her PhD in Virology from the University Hospital of Heidelberg, Department of Infectious Diseases, in Germany.  She is published in several peer-reviewed journals, including "Virus replication and CD4+ cell depletion by HIV-1 Nef in ex vivo human tonsil histocultures." Dr. Homann was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, under Dr. John Guatelli. While at UCSD, Dr. Homann developed a number of research projects, including "The antiviral restriction factor BST-2 in HIV infection in vivo and in vitro," and "The accessory HIV Nef protein and infectivity enhancement."