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...that makes the disease so frightening, along with the uncertainty of nearly everything else about it. Despite the progress in medical research so far, huge questions remain about its origin and fundamental nature. In trying to understand AIDS, says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading investigator at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, "we have moved from being explorers in a canoe to explorers with a small sail on the vast sea of what we do not know...
...addition to money, researchers say, the drive against AIDS needs more direction and better coordination, which only federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health can provide. The NIH has an established nationwide program for the testing of new anticancer agents. Says William Haseltine of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: "What we need to do is apply that know-how and organization to AIDS." Current U.S. trials of antiviral drugs are being conducted in a piecemeal way, often with each research group setting its own standards and protocols. Dr. Martin Hirsch, a Harvard immunologist, complains that it is difficult...
...yesterday’s service, former director of the Dana-Farber Institute and friend David Nathan said Korsmeyer’s “sacrifice and personal impact changed all of our lives...
Korsmeyer received his M.D. in 1976 from the University of Illinois in Chicago. He served as chief of the Division of Molecular Oncology at the University of Washington and eventually joined the Dana-Farber Institute...
David Nathans, former director of the Dana-Farber Institute, said Korsmeyer’s list of accomplishments is “simply too long to cite,” but they include election into the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research...