Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Mark Wainberg

Mark Wainberg OBITUARY URRENT PINION a b Douglas D. Richman, MD and Robert C. Gallo, MD Mark Wainberg was a remarkable advocate. He was president of the International hybrid of a molecular biologist fo- AIDS Society in 2000 when the IAS had scheduled cused on HIV and an advocate for its first meeting to be in the heart of the epidemic access and social justice to address (Durban, South Africa), rather than in Europe or the HIV pandemic. He sadly died North America, where more easy travel and most in a swimming accident in Florida investigators were located. This transformative on April 11 this year at the age of meeting addressed the AIDS denialism of Peter 71. He leaves behind his family, as Duesberg and South African President Thabo well as a remarkably large number Mbeki. Moreover, Mark played a central role in of trainees and collaborators. engaging the participation of Nelson Mandela. Mark started his research career working on Mark was not always known for diplomacy, but avian retroviruses in Montreal, mainly with cell his heart was in the right place and his passion was and in vivo studies. Not long after the AIDS epidemic evident. In 2006 at the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Opinion in HIV and Aids Wolters Kluwer Health

Mark Wainberg

Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/mark-wainberg-RanWUSGims

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Health
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISSN
1746-630X
eISSN
1746-6318
DOI
10.1097/COH.0000000000000394
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

OBITUARY URRENT PINION a b Douglas D. Richman, MD and Robert C. Gallo, MD Mark Wainberg was a remarkable advocate. He was president of the International hybrid of a molecular biologist fo- AIDS Society in 2000 when the IAS had scheduled cused on HIV and an advocate for its first meeting to be in the heart of the epidemic access and social justice to address (Durban, South Africa), rather than in Europe or the HIV pandemic. He sadly died North America, where more easy travel and most in a swimming accident in Florida investigators were located. This transformative on April 11 this year at the age of meeting addressed the AIDS denialism of Peter 71. He leaves behind his family, as Duesberg and South African President Thabo well as a remarkably large number Mbeki. Moreover, Mark played a central role in of trainees and collaborators. engaging the participation of Nelson Mandela. Mark started his research career working on Mark was not always known for diplomacy, but avian retroviruses in Montreal, mainly with cell his heart was in the right place and his passion was and in vivo studies. Not long after the AIDS epidemic evident. In 2006 at the

Journal

Current Opinion in HIV and Aids – Wolters Kluwer Health

Published: Sep 1, 2017

There are no references for this article.