[Memo to PACHA Members from Bruce Weniger]

specialist in the international epidemiology
of HIV/AIDS. Former Chief, HIV Vaccine
Trials and Epidemiology Branch, Division of
AIDS, NIAID, NIH. Member of Institute of
Medicine Committee on Social and Behavioral
Sciences in HIV Biomedical Research, and the
World AIDS Foundation Scientific Advisory
Board.
10:30 - 10:45 PETER PIOT, MD (16:30-16:45 Europe Summer Time)
Executive Director of the Joint United
Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). A
Belgian physician and microbiologist with
over a decade of experience working with
AIDS. Co-discoverer of Ebolavirus in 1976,
and co-founder of "Projet SIDA" in 1984 in
Zaire and other international AIDS research
efforts in Africa. 1992-1994 president of
the International AIDS Society.

10:45 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15
11:15 - 11:30

BURT DORMAN, PhD (7:45-8:00 am PDT)
President and CEO, Acrogen, Inc., a
biotechnology firm. Founder and former
president of Agrion Corporation and its
Advanced Genetics Research Institute
subsidiary, which researched and produced
inactivated whole-virus vaccines for a dozen
veterinary diseases, including the retrovirus
of feline leukemia. Founding member and
former director of the Association of
Biotechnology Companies. Trained at
Berkeley, and Yale in chemistry, human
genetics, zoology, and biology.
DINO DINA, MD (8:00 - 8:15 am PDT)
President of Chiron Vaccines Corporation, one
of very few companies still pursuing AIDS
vaccine product development, with an
"envelope" gp-120 candidate vaccine which has
been found safe and immunogenic in completed
phase I and phase II human trials. Also
involved in R&D of vaccines for influenza,
cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, hepatitis A
and B, and meningococcus A and C. Formerly
on the faculty of Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, and member of the Cell and
Developmental Biology Advisory Committee of
the American Cancer Society.
MAX ESSEX, DVM, PhD
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health
and Chairman, Harvard AIDS Institute.
Virologist. Leading world authority on
retroviruses, who first predicted in the
early 1980s that AIDS was probably caused by
this type of organism. Member of the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academy