Port St. Lucie biotech reports potential breakthrough in HIV treatment (University: purchase, university)

[TriMT7]

Port St. Lucie biotech reports potential breakthrough in HIV treatment:

Excellent news and development!

Highlights from the story:

A scientist who is moving his team of researchers from Montreal to a new institute in Port St. Lucie announced Monday that he has helped uncover a possible method for eradicating HIV from the human body.

Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, scientific director of VGTI Florida - the East Coast branch of Oregon Health & Science University's Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute - said current treatments for HIV limit the progression of the infection.


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VGTI announced in January that Sekaly would join the new Port St. Lucie branch of the institute, bringing about 36 researchers with him from Montreal, where research money is more difficult to come by.

The state awarded VGTI Florida $60 million last year to open a campus in Port St. Lucie, and the city matched it with $53 million in incentives. Part of the state money is being used to seed Sekaly's research team.

Also Monday, VGTI announced that it has closed on the purchase of 8 acres at the Tradition development, where it will build 105,000 square feet of laboratories and offices.


Port St. Lucie biotech reports potential breakthrough in HIV treatment (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/business/epaper/2009/06/22/0622vgti.html - broken link)

[stevep111]

Exactly where in Tradition is it going to be? Is it going to be on the South side of Gatlin?

[LingLing]

Originally Posted by stevep111

Exactly where in Tradition is it going to be? Is it going to be on the South side of Gatlin?

It is at the third floor of Torrey Pine now and will build a building next to it. If you enter Tradition on Tradition Parkway, turn left on Village Parkway and Torrey Pine will be at your left side (the end of the road for now).