Carolina researchers make important scientific step toward an HIV cure

Sat Feb 1, 2020
Overcoming HIV latency is a major step toward creating a cure for HIV. For the first time, scientists at Carolina, Emory University and Qura Therapeutics – a partnership between Carolina and ViiV Healthcare – have found a new approach that can expose latent HIV. Published in Nature, this seminal work was accomplished at the UNC School of Medicine. (UNC.edu)

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