Oct. 21, 2013 --

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1. 2013-10-16 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 16, 2013 - Still shut down. Senate agrees on Bill to open USG and raise debt ceiling. Waiting on House and Boehner. Went to dinner at Villa Firenze (home of Italian Ambassador to the USA, Claudio Bisogniero) at 2800 Albermarle Street, N.W. to honor visit of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta (recently elected, 47 year old). Festive occasion with many of the usual DC glitterati. Had nice conversation with: Wolf Blitzer (CNN), Valerie Jarrett (White House), Susan Rice (National Security Advisor), Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Ed. Markey, Phil Piccagallo (Suns of Italy). Sat next to Maj. Gen. Giovanni Fantuzzi, Military Attache for the Italian Embassy, Linda Douglas (formerly of network TV and White House who was with husband, the newly appointed Ambassador to Italy, Amb. Philip. The opening of the USG was announce as we were at the dinner when Nancy Pelosi and Ed Markey reported that a deal was reached.
2. 2013-10-17 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 17, 2013 - USG opens and debt ceiling raised temporarily until Jan. Likely a similar battle will occur in January.
3. 2013-10-18 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 18, 2013 - Terrific meeting today. Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer of Janssen research Foundation, part of Johnson & Johnson called me months ago asking to have a meeting since he wanted to support and develop the Ad26 vector - HIV mosaic insert vaccine candidate of Dan Barouch. I have always liked working with Paul since he is the real deal as an honest scientist and smart drug developer/businessman. He came in from Belgium with a team from Crucell company that was recently purchased by Janssen. Team was Hannecke Shuitemacher, Maria Grazia Pau, and Johan Van Hoof We discussed the plan for collaborating via DAIDS, HVTN and VRC with the development of this product for Phase 1 and thenPhase 2a and 2b if the early studies dictate. Could possibly be an historic meeting if this works out.
4. 2013-10-19 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   Oct. 19, 2013 -- Went to IOM president's dinner at the NAS on 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. to celebrate the end of Harvey Feinberg's 2 terms (12 years -- 8 months left) as President. Was at Table with Peggy Hamberg and her dad David Hamberg (former President of IOM) and her mother Beatrix. I was impressed at how old so many of the IOM folks look, i.e. Sam Their (with a cane), Roger Bolger, Stuart Bonderant, etc. It was a pleasant evening. I went to show respect for my old friend Harvey Feinberg, but in general, it confirms that I do not like being "trapped" at a table for dinners.
5. 2013-10-21 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci
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6. 2013-10-22 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   October 22, 2013 - - I went to New York City to receive the Pro Bono Humanum Award of the Galien Foundation. The ceremony was in the Museum of Natural History on 79th St. and Central Park West. Prior to the ceremony I went up to New York for a few hours early to visit Larry Kramer who is recovering in the Village Care Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at 214 W. Houston St. in Greenwich Village. It was a somewhat cloudy overcast day with an occasional breakthrough of sunshine. I visited Larry in the facility and I was somewhat shocked by how thin and cachectic he was. We had a good conversation about how he is doing and I encouraged him to continue to push to get back on his feet. He is having trouble walking and he is very weak. I will consider the possibility of bringing him to the National Institutes of Health for further rehabilitation. Following the visit to Larry I went back to my hotel which was the Hotel Excelsior on 81st St. between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. The ceremony at the Museum of Natural History was stunning in the positive sense. I completely underestimated the importance of this particular function. The annual function makes three major awards to biotech companies, pharmaceutical companies, and companies that develop devices. It is essentially the Academy Awards of pharmaceutical/biotech companies. I gave the keynote address associated with my receiving the Pro Bono Humanum Award. This award is given every year. Over the past 3 years it has been won by Francis Collins, Paul Farmer, and Bill Clinton. The dinner gala was held in the Whale Room of the Museum of Natural History. All the elite of the biotech world, the pharmaceutical world, and the academic world were in the audience, which consisted of about 500 people I gave an address on "Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation. Importantly I was introduced and presented the award by Elie Wiesel. It was an extraordinary honor to receive the award by him. I returned to Washington DC first thing in the morning to a very busy week.
7. 2013-10-27 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   October 27, 2013 - Went to reception and showing of a movie by famed young Indian actor, director, producer Aamir Khan at Jefferson Hotel at invitation of Catherine and Wayne Reynolds. Film was on female fetocide in Indian culture. Quite moving. Khan is a multi-millionaire visionary and pioneer for human right causes.
8. 2013-10-28 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   October 28, 2013 - Appeared via teleconference at a NY State AIDS Institute Conference in NYC organized by Mark Harrington and TAG. They wanted my input on how we can truly put an end to the AIDS epidemic in NY State. Mark Dybul phoned in after me from Geneva and the Global Fund.
9. 2013-10-31 00:00 Anthony S. Fauci open
   October 31, 2013 - Been in press over past few days regarding recent papers in Science and other journals on the HIV envelope resolution by cryo-EM by Ian Wilson, Dennis Burton, John Moore. Also on WTOP today regarding polio in Syria.

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