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Immunotherapy and AIDS
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While prescribing antiretroviral drugs for indigent patients, Ngu's experience
has taught him that treating deadly diseases among indigent patients in the developing
world often requires a more practical approach. Through his laboratory at the
University of Yaounde School of Medicine, Ngu has continued to refine a unique
form of immunotherapy as an inexpensive alternative to antiretroviral therapy.
Based on the same method that won him the 1972 Albert Lasker Medical Research
Award for treating Burkitt's lymphoma (a particularly aggressive form of cancer),
Ngu is currently developing a therapeutic vaccine to train the patient's immune
system to more effectively recognize and destroy the virus that causes AIDS.
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