Conference Reports for NATAP

16th CROI Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections Montreal, Canada February 8-11, 2009 Back

CMX157 Conjugate of tenofovir, prodrug: Hexadecyloxypropyl Tenofovir Associates Directly with HIV and Subsequently Inhibits Viral Replication in Untreated Cells       Reported by Jules Levin CROI Feb 8-12 Montreal   Randall Lanier, Bernhard Lampert, Alice Robertson, Merrick Almond and George Painter Chimerix Inc, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA   Lanier formerly with GSK hopes CMX157 will be more potent and safer than tenofovir.