SAN FRANCISCO: New AIDS Research Center to Focus on Vaccine Development
A newly-formed research facility at the University of California at San Francisco will focus on developing an AIDS vaccine and examining "the molecular biology of the AIDS virus." Backed by $7 million in tax money over the next five years, the UCSF California AIDS Research Center will utilize existing staff at UCSF, San Francisco General Hospital and the Gladstone/UCSF Virology Core Laboratory to "explore the critical question of transmission of drug-resistant strains of HIV, and the question of why some patients who have developed drug-resistant strains nonetheless appear to remain healthy" (San Francisco Chronicle, 9/22).
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