Is HIV cure
in children attainable
in our lifetime?

Yes, there are reasons to be optimistic about an HIV cure:

EPIICAL is a Consortium of people who have established a worldwide paediatric HIV clinical and experimental platform that implements bold new strategies to obtain long-term viral remission in children treated early for HIV.

Our vision is a future where children living with HIV live long, healthy lives without the need for life-long treatment.

Our mission is to increase immunological and virological knowledge that allows the implementation of immunotherapies able to obtain long-term viral remission in children.

We are well-positioned to optimize the management of children living with HIV and improve their quality of life.

How?

  • By simultaneously leveraging care, clinical and basic science
  • By collaborating with other researchers across the globe, focusing on the same quest.

 

The knowledge gained from EPIICAL has the potential to:

  • Transform the lives of children living with HIV worldwide, as well as
  • Become applicable for the treatment of HIV in adults, particularly those who initiate early antiretroviral therapy.

If you share our vision

of a future where children living with HIV live long, healthy lives without the need for life-long treatment

MEET OUR TEAM

Carlo Giaquinto

Carlo is the Project Coordinator of EPIICAL. He is also a Full Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Padua, Italy and President of the Penta Foundation

Paolo Rossi

Paolo is a Scientific Coordinator in EPIICAL. He is an Immunologist, a Full Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Director of the Academic Department Paediatrics at the Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome, Italy

Philip Goulder

Philip is a Scientific Coordinator in EPIICAL. He is a Professor of Immunology at the University of Oxford in the UK.

Mark Cotton

Mark Cotton is a Scientific Coordinator in EPIICAL. He is an emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town. He is also a specialist in paediatric infectious diseases.

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