Session 86-Poster Abstracts
Novel Gene Therapy Approaches
Wednesday, 2-4 pm; Poster Hall
      429 Protection of CD4+ T Cells Derived from Gene-modified Stem Cells Enhances the Immune Response and Promotes Recovery of Non-modified CD4+ T Cells in the SHIV-macaque Model
Patrick Younan*1, P Polacino2, O Ho2, B Beard3, G Trobridge4, D Von Laer5, S-L Hu1,2, and H-P Kiem2,3
1Washington Natl Primate Res Ctr, Seattle, US; 2Univ of Washington, Seattle, US; 3Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res Ctr, Seattle, WA, US; 4Washington State Univ, Pullman, US; and 5Innsbruck Med Univ, Austria
      430 Genetic Pressure on HIV Exerted by an env Antisense in Gene-modified Patients
Rithun Mukherjee*1, P Tebas1, G Binder-Scholl1, D Stein2, B Levine1, E Papasavvas3, L Montaner3, T Rebello4, C June1, and F Bushman1
1Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US; 2Albert Einstein Coll of Med, Bronx, NY, US; 3The Wistar Inst, Philadelphia, PA, US; and 4VIRxSYS Corp, Gaithersburg, MD, US
      431

tRNA Promoter Cassettes for the Combinatorial Expression of Short Hairpin RNA Directed against HIV-1
Karl Haushalter*1, L Scherer2, A Anderson1, E Putnam1, A Kretsch1, A Lee1, and J Rossi2
1Harvey Mudd Coll, Claremont, CA, US and 2Beckman Res Inst of City of Hope, Duarte, CA, US
      432

Modified Trimera Mice as Novel Humanized Mouse Model for HIV Gene Therapy in Acute Infection
Andreas Volk*1,2, S Hartmann3, A Muik1,2, C Buchholz3, C Königs4, J Kimpel1, U Dietrich2, and D von Laer1
1Innsbruck Med Univ, Austria; 2Georg-Speyer-Haus, Inst for Biomed Res, Frankfurt, Germany; 3Paul-Ehrlich-Inst, Langen, Germany; and 4Goethe Univ Med Ctr, Frankfurt, Germany
      433

A Single Infusion of Zinc Finger Nuclease CCR5 Modified Autologous CD4 T Cells (SB-728-T) Increases CD4 Counts and Leads to Decrease in HIV Proviral Load in an Aviremic HIV-infected Subject
Jay Lalezari*1, R Mitsuyasu2, S Wang3, G Lee3, M Giedlin3, W Tang3, K Spratt3, R Surosky3, N Dubois-Stringfellow3, and D Ando3
1Quest Clin Res, San Francisco, CA, US; 2Univ of California, Los Angeles, US; and 3Sangamo BioSci, Richmond, CA, US