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2024

Sustained HIV remission after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation with wild-type CCR5 donor cells
Asier Sáez-Cirión, Anne-Claire Mamez, Véronique Avettand-Fenoel, Mitja Nabergoj, Caroline Passaes, Paul Thoueille, Laurent Decosterd, Maxime Hentzien, Federico Perdomo-Celis, Maria Salgado, Monique Nijhuis, Adeline Melard, Elise Gardiennet, Valérie Lorin, Valérie Monceaux, Anais Chapel, Mael Gourves, Marine Lechartier, Hugo Mouquet, Annemarie Wensing, Javier Martínez Picado, Sabine Yerly, Mathieu Rougemont & Alexandra Calmy

Dynamics of virological and immunological markers of HIV persistence after allogeneic haematopoietic stem-cell transplantation in the IciStem cohort: a prospective observational cohort study
Maria Salgado, Cristina Gálvez, Monique Nijhuis, Mi Kwon, E Fabian Cardozo-Ojeda, Jon Badiola, Matthew J Gorman, Laura E P Huyveneers, Victor Urrea, Alessandra Bandera, Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Linos Vandekerckhove, Manuel Jurado, Kavita Raj, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch, Rebeca Bailén, Johanna M Eberhard, Mitja Nabergoj MD, Gero Hütter, Raquel Saldaña-Moreno, Sharon Oldford, Lisa Barrett, Maria Luisa Montes Ramirez, Salisu Garba, Prof Ravi Kumar Gupta, Boris Revollo, Christelle Ferra-Coll, Prof Jurgen Kuball, Galit Alter, Asier Sáez-Cirión, Jose Luis Diez-Martin, Elizabeth R Duke, Prof Joshua T Schiffer, Annemarie Wensing, Prof Javier Martinez-Picado, on behalf of the IciStem Consortium

2023

In-depth virological and immunological characterization of HIV-1 cure after CCR5Δ32/Δ32 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Björn-Erik Ole Jensen, Elena Knops, Leon Cords, Nadine Lübke, Maria Salgado, Kathleen Busman-Sahay, Jacob D. Estes, Laura E. P. Huyveneers, Federico Perdomo-Celis, Melanie Wittner, Cristina Gálvez, Christiane Mummert, Caroline Passaes, Johanna M. Eberhard, Carsten Münk, Ilona Hauber, Joachim Hauber, Eva Heger, Jozefien De Clercq, Linos Vandekerckhove, Silke Bergmann, Gábor A. Dunay, Florian Klein, Dieter Häussinger, Johannes C. Fischer, Kathrin Nachtkamp, Joerg Timm, Rolf Kaiser, Thomas Harrer, Tom Luedde, Monique Nijhuis, Asier Sáez-Cirión, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch, Annemarie M. J. Wensing, Javier Martinez-Picado & Guido Kobbe
Nature Medicine (2023) Feb 20


2022

Autopsy Study Defines Composition and Dynamics of the HIV-1 Reservoir after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation with CCR5Δ32/Δ32 Donor Cells
Huyveneers LEP, Bruns A, Stam A, Ellerbroek P, de Jong D, Nagy NA, Gumbs SBH, Tesselaar K, Bosman K, Salgado M, Hütter G, Brosens LAA, Kwon M, Diez Martin J, van der Meer JTM, de Kort TM, Sáez-Cirión A, Schulze Zur Wiesch J, Boelens JJ, Martinez-Picado J, Kuball JHE, Wensing AMJ, Nijhuis M; IciStem Consortium
Viruses. 2022 Sep 17;14(9):2069. doi: 10.3390/v14092069
PMID: 36146874 Free PMC article.
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2020

The connected worlds of stem cell transplantation and HIV
Wensing AMJ, Chabannon C, Kuball J.
Lancet HIV. 2020 Sep;7(9):e594-e595. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(20)30170-3. Epub 2020 Jul 7.
PMID: 32649867 No abstract available.

Vulnerability to reservoir reseeding due to high immune activation after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in individuals with HIV-1
Johanna M. Eberhard, Mathieu Angin, Caroline Passaes, Maria Salgado, Valerie Monceaux, Elena Knops, Guido Kobbe, Björn Jensen, Maximilian Christopeit, Nicolaus Kröger, Linos Vandekerckhove, Jon Badiola, Alessandra Bandera, Kavita Raj, Jan van Lunzen, Gero Hütter, Jürgen H. E. Kuball, Carolina Martinez-Laperche, Pascual Balsalobre, Mi Kwon, José L. Díez-Martín, Monique Nijhuis, Annemarie Wensing, Javier Martinez-Picado, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch and Asier Sáez-Cirión
Sci Transl Med. 2020 May 6;12(542):eaay9355. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aay9355.

Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Dimitra Peppa, Alison L Hill, Cristina Gálvez, Maria Salgado, Matthew Pace, Laura E McCoy, Sarah A Griffith, John Thornhill, Aljawharah Alrubayyi, Laura E P Huyveneers, Eleni Nastouli, Paul Grant, Simon G Edwards, Andrew J Innes, John Frater, Monique Nijhuis, Annemarie J Wensing, Javier Martinez-Picado, Eduardo Olavarria
Lancet HIV. 2020 Mar 9. pii: S2352-3018(20)30069-2. 

The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2020, Boston, Massachusetts, March 8–11, 2020
Presentation: Sustained HIV remission in the London Patient: the case for an HIV cure
Presenter: Ravindra Gupta

The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2020, Boston, Massachusetts, March 8–11, 2020
Presentation: CCR5Δ32 SCT-induced HIV remission: traces of HIV-DNA but fading immune reactivity 
Presenter: Björn Jensen

2019

CROI 2019, 4-7 March 2019, Seattle, USA
Presenter: Ravindra Gupta
Date: March 5th, 2019

European Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 27th Annual Congress, 22-25 October 2019, Barcelona, Spain
Presentation: The IciStem experience: learning from allogeneic stem cell transplantation to cure HIV
Presenter: Javier Martinez-Picado
Date: October 24th, 2019

HIV Cure Symposium, 16-17 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium
Presentation: Results of the ICISTEM cohort
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: September 17th, 2019

5th Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy for HIV Cure, August 22-23 2019, Seattle
Presentation: Potential for HIV Cure by allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: August 22nd, 2019

10TH IAS CONFERENCE ON HIV SCIENCE (IAS 2019) 21-24 July 2019, Mexico City, Mexico 
Abstract: Allogeneic stem cell transplant in HIV-1 infected individuals; An update of the IciStem Consortium
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: July 24th, 2019

Melanie Wittner, Veronika Schlicker, Jana Libera,Jan-Hendrik Bockmann, Thomas Horvatits, Oliver Seiz, Silke Kummer, Carolin F. Manthey, Anja Hüfner, Marcus Kantowski, Thomas Rösch, Olaf Degen, Samuel Huber, Johanna M. Eberhard, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch
PLoS One. 2019 Jul 29;14(7):e0220008.

Saez-Cirion A, Müller-Trutwin M.
Trends Immunol. 2019 Jun;40(6):465-467

EuroMedLab 2019, 19-22 May 2019, Barcelona, Spain
Presentation: Stem cell therapy to cure HIV: so close, so far
Presenter: Javier Martinez-Picado
Date: May 22nd, 2019

Arevir Meeting 2019, 3-4 May 2019, Cologne, Germany
Presentation: Potential for HIV Cure by stem cell transplantation (IciStem)
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: May 4th, 2019

IAS Advocacy-for-Cure Academy, 29 April - 1 May 2019, Botswana
Oral presentation: Scalability of HIV Cure – A look at the IciStem consortium
Presenter: Annemarie Wensing
Date: May 1st, 2019

Functional Cures and the Eradication of HIV, 24-28 March 2019, Canada 
Poster presentation: Allogeneic stem cell transplantation reduces HIV latent reservoir under cART independently of CCR5-mutated donor
Presenter: Maria Salgado
Date: March 28th, 2019

CROI 2019, 4-7 March 2019, Seattle, USA
Presenter: Björn Jensen 
Date: March 6th, 2019

Pre-CROI Community HIV Cure Workshop, 3 March 2019, Seattle, USA
Presentation: Potential for HIV Cure by Stem Cell Transplantation, the IciStem Perspective
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: March 3rd, 2019

Ravindra K. Gupta, Sultan Abdul-Jawad, Laura E. McCoy, Hoi Ping Mok, Dimitra Peppa, Maria Salgado, Javier Martinez-Picado, Monique Nijhuis, Annemarie M. J. Wensing, Helen Lee, Paul Grant, Eleni Nastouli, Jonathan Lambert, Matthew Pace, Fanny Salasc, Christopher Monit, Andrew J. Innes, Luke Muir, Laura Waters, John Frater, Andrew M. L. Lever, Simon G. Edwards, Ian H. Gabriel & Eduardo Olavarria 
Naturevolume 568, pages244–248 (2019)

2019 Miami Winter Symposium, 27-30 January 2019, Miami, USA
Presentation: Hematological stem cell therapy to cure HIV infection: So close, so far
Presenter: Javier Martinez-Picado
Date: January 28th, 2019


2018

HIV DART and Emerging Viruses 2018, 27-29 November 2018, Miami, USA
Presentation: Potential for HIV cure by stem cell transplantation (IciStem)
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: November 27th, 2018

Mechanisms That Contribute to a Profound Reduction of the HIV-1 Reservoir After Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant
Salgado M, Kwon M, Gálvez C, Badiola J, Nijhuis M, Bandera A, Balsalobre P, Miralles P, Buño I, Martinez-Laperche C, Vilaplana C, Jurado M, Clotet B, Wensing A, Martinez-Picado J, Diez-Martin JL; IciStem Consortium.
Ann Intern Med. 2018 Nov 20;169(10):674-683. doi: 10.7326/M18-0759. Epub 2018 Oct 16

Development of sensitive ddPCR assays to reliably quantify the proviral DNA reservoir in all common circulating HIV subtypes and recombinant form
Bosman KJ, Wensing AM, Pijning AE, van Snippenberg WJ, van Ham PM, de Jong DM, Hoepelman AI, Nijhuis M
J Int AIDS Soc. 2018 Sep;21(9):e25185. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25185.

IAS AIDS 2018, 23-27 July 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation: Stem Cell Transplantations: ICISTEM  
Presenter: Monique Nijhuis
Date: July 26th, 2018

IAS AIDS 2018, 23-27 July 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Presentation: Dominant HIV DNA populations present in different T-cell subsets before stem cell transplantation persist in tissues early after transplantation with CCR5Δ32 stem cells 
Presenter: Annemarie Wensing
Date: July 24th, 2018

National AIDS Conference, 25-27 May 2018, Jozefow, Poland
HIV cure: Utopia or reality?
Presenter: Annemarie Wensing
Date: May 25th, 2018

16th European Meeting on HIV & Hepatitis 2018, 30 May 2018 - 1 June 2018, Rome, Italy
Oral presentation: Dynamics of HIV DNA populations before and after transplantation with CCR5Δ32 stem cells
Presenter: Annemarie Wensing
Date: May 31st, 2018

44th Annual meeting of the EBMT, 18-20 March 2018, Lisbon, Portugal
HIV Status in long-term follow-up after allogeneic stem cell transplantation: "the Granada patients".
Presenter: Jon Badiola
Date: March 20th 2018


2017

IAS HIV Cure & Cancer Forum, 22 & 23 July 2017, Paris, France
Oral presentation, title: Achievement of full donor chimerism with episodes of alloreactivity contributes to reduce the HIV reservoir after allogeneic stem cell transplantation
Presenter: Maria Salgado
Date: July 23rd 2017

IAS HIV Cure & Cancer Forum, 22 & 23 July 2017, Paris, France
Poster, title: Allgeneic stem cell transplantation in HIV-1-infected individuals - the IciStem Consortium: the role of lymphocyte populations
Presenter: Johanna Eberhard

IAS HIV Cure & Cancer Forum, 22 & 23 July 2017, Paris, France
Poster, title: Murine model to predict viral rebound in HIV+ allotransplanted subjects
Presenter: Maria Salgado

Persistance of HIV DNA in tissues early after transplantation with CCR5Δ32 stem cells
K. Bosman, M. Nijhuis, A. Bruns, M. Salgado, G. Hütter, L. Brosens, J. Martinez-Picado, J. Kuball, A. Wensing
Poster presentation at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), February 13-16, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

Murine model to predict viral rebound in HIV+ allotransplanted subjects
Maria Salgado, Mi Kwon, Cristina Galvez Celada, Monique Nijhuis, Cristina Vilaplana, Alessandra Bandera, Annemarie Wensing, Jose Luis Diez, Javier Martinez-Picado
Poster presentation at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), February 13-16, 2017 in Seattle, Washington.

2016

Is allogeneic stem-cell transplant curative for HIV infection? Bruce Jancin. Hematology News, Vol1 no1, 2016.

Viral Reactivations and Associated Outcomes in Immune Reconstitution after Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation. Admiraal R, de Koning C, Bierens M, Lindemans C, Wensing AM, Versluis B, Wolfs T, Nierkens S, Boelens JJ. Accepted for publication in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Treatment of HIV and acute myeloid leukemia by allogeneic CCR5-d32 blood stem cell transplantation
E. Knops, G. Kobbe, R. Kaiser, N. Luebke, G. Dunay, A.M.J. Wensing, J. Martinez-Picado, M. Nijhuis, J. Fischer, F. Huettig, R. Haas, D. Haeussinger, B. Jensen.
Poster at HIV Glasgow 2016 (Glasgow, UK)

HIV+ patients and HIV eradication - allogeneic transplantation
G. Hütter
Expert Rev Hematol. 2016 Jul;9(7):615-6. doi: 10.1080/17474086.2016.1183478. Epub 2016 May 10.
PMID: 27139903

2015

Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in HIV-1 Infected Individuals
A.M.J. Wensing, J.L. Diez Martin, G. Hutter, J. Kuball, M. Nijhuis, A. Saez-Cirion, V. Rocha, J. Schulze zur Wiesch, J. Martinez-Picado, for the EPISTEM consortium
Poster at the 7th HIV Persistence during Therapy (Miami, USA)

Comparison of digital PCR platforms and semi-nested qPCR as a tool to determine the size of the HIV reservoir
K.J. Bosman, M. Nijhuis, P.M. van Ham, A.M.J. Wensing, K. Vervisch, L. Vandekerckhove, W. De Spiegelaere
Sci Rep. 2015 Sep 9;5:13811. doi: 10.1038/srep13811. 
PMID: 26350506

Sufficient Immunosuppression with Thymoglobulin Is Essential for a Successful Haplo-Myeloid Bridge in Haploidentical-Cord Blood Transplantation
C.A. Lindemans, L.C.J. te Boome, R. Admiraal, E.C. Jol-van der Zijde, A.M.J. Wensing, A.B. Versluijs, M.B. Bierings, J. Kuball, J.J. Boelens 
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Oct;21(10):1839-45. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2015.06.001. Epub 2015 Jun 26.
PMID: 26119367

CCR5 Δ32 homozygous cord blood allogeneic transplantation in a patient with HIV: a case report
R.F. Duarte, M. Salgado, I. Sánchez-Ortega, M. Arnan, C. Canals, E. Domingo-Domenech, A. Fernández-de-Sevilla, E. González-Barca, S. Morón-López, N. Nogues, B. Patiño, M.C. Puertas, B. Clotet, L.D. Petz, S. Querol, J. Martinez-Picado
Lancet HIV. 2015 Jun;2(6):e236-42. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(15)00083-1. Epub 2015 May 19. 
PMID: 26423196

Robust regression methods for real-time polymerase chain reaction
W. Trypsteen, J. De Neve, K. Bosman, M. Nijhuis, O. Thas, L. Vandekerckhove, W. De Spiegelaere 
Anal Biochem. 2015 Jul 1;480:34-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2015.04.001. Epub 2015 Apr 8.
PMID: 25862086




The IciStem project is currently supported by the Aidsfonds. IciStem was established with funding from the AmfAR Research Consortium on HIV eradication (ARCHE) Research Grant # 109858-64-RSRL


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