French dignitaries visit Baylor's HIV Vaccine Lab at Baylor Research Institute

The French Ambassador to the United States, Pierre Vimont, along with Andre Syrota, M.D., PhD, general director of Inserm, the French equivalent to the NIH, toured their $8 million investment at the Baylor Research Institute (BRI) on Friday, June 19, 2009. Inserm awarded Baylor the multimillion grant to research a potential HIV vaccine—one designed to help patients better control their disease without the use of medication. Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR), a component of BRI and led by Jacques Banchereau, PhD, has been researching a unique technology aimed at restoring an HIV-infected persons immunological response to the virus using cells from the patients own immune system. For more information about Baylor's research, visit http://bit.ly/3amOz9