Occupation: Immunologist Birth: December 24, 1940
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuste….
Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil..
You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others..
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed..
The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself..
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was..
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, e….
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain t….
You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up..
The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in ch….
I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate..
The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that sho….
Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that in that smo….
The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with wh….
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different ….
We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the s….
An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far ….
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world..
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping coug….
What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevent….
I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS..