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June 17, 2010 - Met with Minister of Health of Taiwan today to discuss potential scientific collaborations. He said that I was "famous" in Taiwan....interesting. Jean William (Bill) Pape visited from Haiti today and gave lecture at Masur Auditorium. He is a good friend and invited Megan to visit Haiti. He is in DC to receive an award for the amazing work that he has done in Haiti related to the earthquake.
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June 24, 2010 - Met with Minister of Health of India Ghulam Nabi Azad to discuss collaborations. Sharp guy - enjoyed discussion.
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June 29, 2010 - Went with Chris to South Lawn of the White House to celebrate her election to the Bioethics Commission. Turned out it was a massive get together on a very hot day for all Presidential appointees. They were completely disorganized in getting people cleared through the gates and it was a logistic disaster. The delay was probably related to multiple checking of IDs related to the "gate-crashing" of a WH party a few months ago.
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July 11, 2010 - Went to Atlanta for the day (Sunday) to give plenary at the CDC sponsored international Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. Hot July day. I shared the Plenary opening evening addresses with Tom Frieden and Kevin DeCock. Good camaraderie among CDC people and me. Came back to DC that night.
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Anthony S. Fauci
July 12, 2010 - Attended swearing in of Harold Varmus as the new Director of the National Cancer Institute. Starting to do a lot of press in anticipation of the International AIDS Meeting in Vienna next week. Am looking forward to this meeting since I am giving a Plenary Lecture on Pathogenesis of HIV Disease: Opportunities for Interventions.
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July 18, 2010 - Leave for Vienna (Sunday) - Disaster for travel - flight cancelled on the runway, switch from direct flight to Vienna (Austrian Airlines) to United to Frankfurt connecting to Vienna. United flight sits on IAD runway for 2 hours due to thunder storms - miss connection in Frankfurt. Finally get the Vienna on Monday afternoon (19th July). Trying to stay cool and un-ruffled. Good to have Johanna McDonough meet me at airport. She had rescheduled me from IAD to get me to Vienna. She is a lifesaver.
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July 19-21, 2010 - Really great meeting in Vienna. My talk was a knockout. Also, very good press from Vienna - PBS Newshour, CNN, WTOP, CBS radio, also NY Times, Washington Post, etc. Meeting was a complete success. We announced the results from the CAPRISA microbicide trial. First success with topical microbicides.
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July 22-23, 2010 - Good press follow-up from meeting - NPR Science Friday among others. Note that we have been going through a record breaking heat wave on the East Coast with a concentration in DC. Temps between 92 and 101 F for the past several weeks. Welcome to Washington! Also, over the past 2 weeks I have been informed that I have won the Paul Janssen Prize from Belgium ($100,000.00) (cannot take the money since the prize is sponsored by J & J - what bullshit). Also won the Will Roger Prize for $50,000.00 (yes, I can accept the money). To be given to me in LA - am looking forward to this. This has been a very busy, hot, exciting summer. Am chronically tired, but good things are happening, particularly in the lab (a4B7) and with commentary papers that I am writing including some really nice ones with Gary Nabel on HIV vaccine and universal flu vaccine.
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Aug. 4, 2010 - Memorial service for Bob Chanock, giant in virology for 50 years at NIAID. Major figure in virology research - discovered M. pneumonia; several parainfluenza viruses, his groups also discovered norovirus (Norwalk agent), made vaccine for rotavirus and hepatitis A, etc. I gave one of the eulogies at his service.