Office of AIDS Research, NIH, US DHHS Bldg. 31 4C02, 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20892-2340 email: nathansn@od.nih.gov
The Office of AIDS Research, a relatively small but Influential unit within the US National Institutes of Health, is responsible for "coordinating the scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy elements of the NIH AIDS research program". Here the new director, Neal Nathanson, presents his vision of how the nations $1 .7 billion AIDS research effort should be used to respond to the challenge of AIDS
