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Hong Kong's Immuno Cure Emerges With DNA Vaccine Approach To HIV

Local Ecosystem Still Developing

 
• By Dexter Jie Yan

Hong Kong-based Immuno Cure expects its therapeutic DNA vaccine for HIV/AIDS will soon deliver early Phase I results in patients with late-stage infections, CEO Xia Jin tells Scrip in an interview, also touching on the local biotech ecosystem.

Hong Kong Science Park
The Hong Kong Science Park is home to Immuno Cure and other innovation-focused start-ups • Source: Shutterstock

Hong Kong-based Immuno Cure BioTech has emerged as one of the few Chinese biotechs to tap into the potential of therapeutic DNA vaccines to achieve the immune-based functional cure of HIV/AIDS through undetectable or very low plasma viremia levels close to showing complete eradication of the virus from the body.

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