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Without an answer, developing vaccines is a very halting process. "The virus is a moving target," says Dr. Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "It is constantly changing its genetic makeup through mutations. It's also a moving target because the proteins of the virus surface are actually moving themselves - they are conformationally flexible. The net result is that the immune system never gets a really good look at them...
...year to two years after the disclosure of those results had to be among the most bleak of times for AIDS-vaccine scientists," says Nabel. "We questioned just about everything we were doing...
...Nabel said that both Brigham and Faulkner will continue to emphasize innovation in diagnostics, therapeutics, and other areas of patient care...
Given the current economic climate, the hospitals will face inevitable fiscal challenges, Nabel said, but these are the same difficulties that hospital presidents across the country must address...
...Nabel, who will spend the first few months of her tenure learning about the hospitals’ current clinical and research programs, said that setting a specific agenda would be “premature” at this point...