SEATTLE — The effort to find a cure for hepatitis B faces steep challenges, Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD, told Healio after her plenary presentation at the Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Lok, the assistant dean for clinical research and Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology at the University of Michigan Medical School, said that although there are promising treatments in the pipeline, the concept of a “cure” for HPV may need to redefined.
Lok told us what she thinks the priority areas of research should be to move closer to a cure.
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