Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Treatment of HIV and acute myeloid leukemia by allogeneic CCR5-d32 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Treatment of HIV and acute myeloid leukemia by allogeneic CCR5-d32 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Treatment of HIV and acute myeloid leukemia by allogeneic CCR5-d32 blood stem cell transplantation Elena Knops Elena Knops, GfV 2016 Background - the Berlin patient so far the only person presumed to be cured from HIV by hematopoietic
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Background
- the Berlin patient – so far the only person presumed to be cured from HIV by
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from a homozygous CCR5-d32 donor
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Background
- the Berlin patient – so far the only person presumed to be cured from HIV by
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from a homozygous CCR5-d32 donor
- failed attempts to reproduce cure by HSCT - viral rebound or death due to
underlying malignancy
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Background
- the Berlin patient – so far the only person presumed to be cured from HIV by
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from a homozygous CCR5-d32 donor
- failed attempts to reproduce cure by HSCT - viral rebound or death due to
underlying malignancy
- THE question about all of these attempts and the Berlin patient:
How to be sure about the cure? Is there any virus in the patient?
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
The whole story (drama in 4 acts)
46y old patient alive, well and undetectable for HIV (RNA/DNA) over 3 years after allogeneic CCR5-d32 HSCT
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
The beginning (prologue)
induction consolidation
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
The beginning (prologue)
induction consolidation
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
The beginning (prologue)
induction consolidation
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter I
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- ne week before
SCT
female donor, 10 out of 10 HLA- matched CCR5-d32
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter I
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- ne week before
SCT
female donor, 10 out of 10 HLA- matched CCR5-d32
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter I
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- ne week before
SCT
female donor, 10 out of 10 HLA- matched CCR5-d32
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Chapter I
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- ne week before
SCT
female donor, 10 out of 10 HLA- matched CCR5-d32
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Chapter II
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Chapter II
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total of 8 courses of 5-azacytidine + 4 donor lymphocyte infusions
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Chapter III
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<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
+ CMV, HHV8, HSV
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Chapter III
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<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
+ CMV, HHV8, HSV
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Chapter III
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<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
Tacrolimus + topical steroids + CMV, HHV8, HSV
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter III
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<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
+ CMV, HHV8, HSV Tacrolimus + topical steroids
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter III
....
<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
+ CMV, HHV8, HSV Tacrolimus + topical steroids
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
Chapter III
....
<LOD (884250) in rectal and ileum biopsy
10 10 10
+ CMV, HHV8, HSV Tacrolimus + topical steroids
Elena Knops, GfV 2016
02/2013
- pos. control
- neg. control
06/2014 02/2015 07/2015 12/2015 01/2016
gp160 gp120 gp41 p34 p25 p18 p55 p68
Chapter IV
before SCT
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HIV reservoirs
anatomical cellular
- GALT
- lymph nodes
- Liquor/CNS/CSF
- urogenital tract
- follicular
dendritic cells
- macrophages
- resting CD4+
cells
„Can HIV be cured?“ Mario Stevenson Scientific American 299, 78 - 83 (2008)
Hide-outs of HIV
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The end? (epilogue)
- Viral outgrowth assay (EPISTEM: Javier Martinez-Picado, Barcelona):
PBMCs (in progress) and lymph node (planned)
- V3 phenotypes of the minority of the predicted X4 variants
(EPISTEM: Monique Nijhuis, Utrecht)
- T-cell response assay (Thomas Harrer, Erlangen):
PBMCs (in progress)
- proviral DNA load from further PBMC samples, biopsies and lymph nodes
(Institute of Virology, Cologne and Gabor Dunay, HPI, Hamburg)
- proviral DNA load from PBMCs from the time points of the AML relapse
(in progress)
European project to guide and investigate the potential for HIV cure by stem cell transplantation.
The EPISTEM project is supported by amfAR Research Consortium
- n HIV eradication (ARCHE) Research Grant # 108930-56-RGRL
www.epistem-project.org
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The end? (epilogue) Stop ART? What else?
THE question: How to be sure about the cure?
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Institute for Immunogenetics, Kaiserslautern
Martin Däumer, Alex Thielen
Heinrich Pette Institut HH
Gabor Dunay, Johanna Eberhardt, Silke Kummer, Julian Schulze zur Wiesch
Med 3, University of Erlangen
Thomas Harrer
MASTER–HIV/HEP (RKI, Resina)
Norbert Bannert, Barbara Bartmeyer, Osama Hamouda, Klaus Jansen, Claudia Kücherer, Andrea Hauser, Robert Koch Institut (RKI), Berlin
- Dept. Gastroenterologie, Krankenhaus der Augustinerinnen, Cologne
Mark Oette
MPI of Informatics, Saarbrücken
Thomas Lengauer, Nico Pfeifer, Alejandro Pironti, Prabhav Kalaghatgi
Thanks to our group
Institute of Virology, University of Cologne
Rolf Kaiser Veronica Di Cristanziano Maria Neumann-Fraune Eugen Schülter Claudia Müller Saleta Sierra-Aragon Eva Heger Simon Lennartz Hermann Töpker Max Damagnez Stephanie Inden Sascha Hasheminasab Herbert Pfister
University of Düsseldorf
Hepatology & Infectiology Björn Jensen Falk Hüttig Dieter Häussinger Virology Nadine Lübke Haematology Guido Kobbe Moleculare Medizin Philipp Lang Junnat Hamdam