Since its established in 1988, AIDS Research Center (ARC) focus has been on HIV- and other retroviruses-related diseases. The principal objective of ARC is to contribute to the control of HIV infection.

The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for AIDS Research has been successfully completed on November 2021.
  The 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for AIDS Research
    Onsite & Online Hybrid
      Onsite/Live Streaming: November 21 - November 23, 2021
      On-demand Sessions: November 21 - December 20, 2021
    Venue: Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Tokyo
    Theme: SCB to the Future (Social, Clinical, Basic)
    Organizer: Tetsuro Matano (ARC/NIID & IMSUT)
    >> Web site 

2016.10.05
GHIT has announced the award for a project for development of a Dengue vaccine by VLP Therapeutics in collaboration with Nagasaki University and NIID.
This international collaborative project by VLP Therapeutics, Nagasaki University and National Institute of Infectious diseases (NIID), supported by Global Health Innovation Technology [GHIT] Fund, is a pre-clinical study to investigate safety and immunogenicity of a virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccine against Dengue virus infection.
  >> GHIT press room       >> GHIT web site       >> VLP Therapeutics web site

2013.04.02
The New York-based International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Japan-based biotech DNAVEC Corporation announced the start of a Phase I clinical trial of an HIV vaccine candidate using Sendai virus (SeV) vector at three locations including England and Rwanda.
The SeV vector AIDS vaccine system has been developed by our research group.
  >> Information on this project in IAVI Web 

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