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Nature 453, 289-290 (15 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453289a; Published online 14 May 2008
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Anthony S. Fauci1
- Anthony S. Fauci is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation.
Abstract
Reflecting on how far we have come scientifically since isolating HIV in 1983, Anthony S. Fauci urges a renewed commitment to the far greater challenges ahead, especially that of vaccine development.
The HIV/AIDS catastrophe has been one of the defining features of the past quarter of a century. Although it is short-lived in the scheme of public-health crises, the pandemic ranks among the most devastating microbial scourges in human history, one whose full impact has yet to be realized.
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