Word: hoffmann
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Both ritonavir and indinavir belong to a promising new class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...
Smatis Xydas '96, a student in Hoffmann's section, said he was disappointed that the professor would be unable to hold sections but added that "since Professor Maier and the TF are teaching that alleviates the problem...
Xydas said part of the reason he took the core course was because of Hoffmann's international reputation as "the authority on European studies...
Andrea G. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli '96, who is also in Hoffmann's section, said that Hoffman had recently been teaching on crutches...
While Sangiovanni Vincentelli said Hoffmann "was a definite plus" to the course, he added that Maier "is a very good lecturer as well...