Patents Assigned to INSTITUT DE RECHERSCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (IRD)
  • Pharmaceutical compositions comprising inactivated HIV viral particles and non-pathogenic lactobacilli for the induction of antigen-specific immunotolerance
    Patent number: 9839684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a mixture of a specific HIV antigen and a non-pathogenic living bacterium. Said specific HIV antigen comprises one or more epitopes from Gag and/or Pol proteins and is preferably under a particulate form. Said bacterium is preferably Lactobacillus plantarum. These compositions are useful for preventing and/or treating an HIV disease in humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignees: BIOVAXIM LIMITED, UNIVERSITE PARIS DESCARTES, INSTITUT DE RECHERSCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT (IRD)
    Inventors: Jean-Marie Andrieu, Louis Lu