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Sept. 10, 2013 - Went to Rooftop Recption dinner hosted by the Friends of the National Library of Medicine at 101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. with a breath-taking view of the Capitol. I gave laudation/award to Ray Schinazi for his discover of Lamivudine, Emtricitabine, and sofosbuvir. Very enjoyable night.
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Sept. 11, 2013 - Gave Great Teacher's Lecture at the Masur Auditorium in the Clinical Center as part of celebration of 60th Anniversary of the NIH Clinical Center. Spoke of Ending the AIDS Pandemic; however spent first part of talk on ny history in coming to and working in the Clinical Center for over 40 years. Packed house in Masur and overflow in Lipsett Auditorium. Amazing how time flies by. I remember the first day that I arrived and parked in the lot diretly in front of the CC and bumped into Alba Cosenza.
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Sept. 19, 2013 - I called an important Summit that took place at Bethesda North Marriott. Purpose was to discuss the advisability of using Adenovirus vectors for HIv vaccines given the failures of Ad5 vectors in 3 vaccine trials, but more importantly the fact that there were "trends" in each study that showed an enhancing effect on acquisition of infection in the vaccines who received the Ad5 vector. Meta-analysis of the 3 studies showed a significant (<0.01) 32% enhancement of infection. Big question is that there are ongoing plans to use other vectors (Ad26, among others) in future HIV vaccine trials as well as in non-HIV vaccine trials (malaria, TB, etc.) in populations that might be at risk for HIV. Seems to me that any vaccine that activates cells that might migrate to the mucosal surface can have an enhancing effect that is seen if the vaccine is not efficacious. If the vaccine is efficacious, then the enhancing effect is masked as might have been the case with the 31% efficacy of the RV144 trial. Important issue is to try to get the efficacious vaccine and not do a trial on an Ad vector unless it shows an immune response that would be better than any other vaccines that we have tried. he gur work force.
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Sept. 20, 2013 - Went to Lasker Lunch at the Pierre Hotel in NYC. Beautiful Fall Day. Bill and Melinda Gates won the Bloomberg-Lasker Award for Public Service that I had won a few years ago. Nice event. Bill and I discussed briefly the challenges of the P5 vaccine agenda.
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Sept. 23, 2013 - Went to Friends of Cancer Research Awards reception on the roof of the Hay-Adams hotel. Beautiful Indian Summer nuight and spectacular view of White House. Invited by Ellen Sigal. She seated me in first row of award ceremony after reception. Present were Governors Martin O'Malley of MD and Robert McDonnel of VA. Got to chat with both. Usual glitterati reception.
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Sept. 27, 2013 - Had great typical dinner with Wayne and Catherine Reynolds at the Jefferson Hotel. Intimate setting with about 20 people at dinner - Rick Atkinson and wife Jane (Rick is strongly encouraging me to get going in writing my book); Gen. James Jones and wife; Gen. Colin Powell and Alma Powell; John Rogers (Goldman Sachs and wife Deborah Lehr); Ben Carson and wife Candy; journalist Dana Priest; Steve Rosenberg and wife Alice, among others. Stimulating conversation regard imminent shutting down of the USG due to stalemate on budget between Republicans (who want to defund Obamacare) and Democrats (who want a clean bill to keep government going on a CR without touching Obamacare). Difficult to predict what will happen on Monday (Sept. 30) at midnight, when the current fiscal year ends. During dinner varied discussion. I spoke passionately about the stupidity of across the board cuts in Biomedical research as part of the sequester and how this will damage our standing as the world leader in biomedical research.
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Sept. 28-30, 2013 - Threat of US government shutdown due to impasse in discussions between Republicans (Speaker Boehner - driven by T Party extremists) and Democrats (POTUS and Sen. Leader Harry Reid). GOP wants to negotiate defunding Obamacare or at least modifying (delaying) individual mandate before they pass a CR to keep government open after Sept. 30. POTUS refused to negotiate "with a gun to my head". He says: "pass CR and then we negotiate; also raise debt limit without conditions". I have prepared a video tape of my Opening Keynote for the Barcelona AIDS Vaccine meeting on Oct. 7 in preparation for possibility that I will not be able to travel to Spain. Rule is that if USG shuts down, then no USG employee travels.
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Oct. 1, 2013 - Government shut down. NIH begins to furlough 70+% of our work force.
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Oct. 7, 2013 - I obviously did not leave for Spain. Was scheduled to leave on Oct. 5 to arrive on Oct. 6. My video was played on this evening. I put an extraordinary amount of time over the previous 5 weeks preparing this talk and it was one of the best that I have done. It was received with overwhelming praise as many people e-mailed me after the video was shown (7:00 PM Barcelona time - 1:00 PM DC time). People were tweeting even during the lecture. Gepi Pantaleo e-mailed me right after the lecture and said that "it was amazing". -and raise debt Jan. Likely a Our government is dysfunctional with neither side giving any indication of negotiating. Likely to be shut down until and beyond the debt ceiling deadline of October 17. This will mean that I will miss several other talks including the upcoming award that I am supposed to receive in San Francisco from the SF AIDS Foundation (SFAF) on Saturday, Oct. 12. Stay tuned.