In an interview with Dr. Michael Saag for the “Going Anti-Viral Podcast” posted March 7, Dr. Joe Eron described his presentation for the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections CROI (2025).
The two discuss the state of HIV cure research, recognizing why it has been difficult to develop a cure for HIV while explaining the difference between HIV cure and functional cure. They also offer an overview of cure research efforts looking at blocking and locking HIV in human DNA, while discussing the potential for “molecular scissors” (CRISPR-Cas9) to cure HIV.
Watch the interview (28 minutes).