The Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise announced that the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, will serve as Local Hosts for AIDS Vaccine 2011, the largest and most important global scientific conference focused on AIDS vaccine research. AIDS Vaccine 2011will be held 12-15 September 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.  The full announcement is below.

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories is a first of its kind research and development joint venture with a not-for-profit mission focusing on developing affordable vaccines to prevent diseases that commonly affect low-income countries. For more information, please see the press release below.

Researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), at The Scripps Research Institute, and at the biotechnology companies Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences have discovered two powerful new antibodies to HIV that reveal what may be an Achilles heel on the virus.