A Controversial Shot in the Arm

Debate over the roles of an HIV protein previously recognized as helping the virus turn on its genes hasn’t stopped scientists from using it in experimental vaccinations against AIDS.

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David I. Cohen
Queens College
Bernard and Gloria Salick Center for Molecular and Cellular Biology
Flushing, NY 11367

Barbara Ensoli
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Laboratory of Virology
00161 Rome
Italy

Robert C. Gallo
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Institute of Human Virology
725 West Lombard Street, 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201-1192

Beatrice Hahn
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Microbiology
701 South 19th Street
LHRB-613
Birmingham, AL 35294

John P. Moore
Rockefeller University
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Gary Nabel
National Institutes of Health
National Vaccine Research Center
Bethesda, MD 20892

Ab Osterhaus
Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam
Dr Molewaterplein 50
3015 GE Rotterdam
Netherlands

C. David Pauza
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Medicine
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
515 SMI Medical Science Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53792

Andrew P. Rice
Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Molecular Virology
Houston, TX 77030

Eric M. Verdin
University of California, San Francisco
Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology
P.O. Box 419100
San Francisco, CA 94141-9100

Daniel Zagury
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
4, place Jussieu
75005 Paris
France

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 19, November 6, 1999, p. 300. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.