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...Groopman, who also sits on the board, says, "Ithink most thoughtful researchers who have directinvolvement with people with AIDS clearly feel thefrustration and pain that the patients have ifthey are prevented from getting access...
...Groopman was one of the first to test AZT, oneof the most common drugs used today to treat AIDSpatients. Hirsch was among the first to showincreased effectiveness of a combination of AZTand another preventative drug...
...Groopman, at least, goes even further. "Ithink honestly, if you look at the quality ofresearch and the level of productivity, I thinkthere's no institution in the country or the worldthat has done as much as Harvard," he says.CrimsonAndrew D. CohenJEROME E. GROOPMAN, co-director of theHarvard AIDS Institute's Center for ClinicalResearch, directs several projects on the cuttingedge of research in drug treatments for AIDS...
Professor of Medicine Jerome E. Groopman, who co-directs the Center, has two labs for two different kinds of research--one for studying and testing blood samples, the other for working with cells and viruses. Each is named for the level of precaution required for work--Biosafety Level 2 (BL-2), for work with the blood samples, and the high-caution Biosafety Level 3 (BL-3), for work with the cells and viruses...
...these safety precautions are much more than is necessary, says Randal A. Byrn, an instructor in medicine who works in Groopman's lab. But "because of [the nature of] our work, we take it real seriously," he says...