Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it – small chance, not a...

There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.

The body’s immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers...

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don’t have the advantages that we have.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who...

There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.

It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and...

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the...

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It’s a very, very...

There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against...

The immune system’s goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

I run a modest-sized laboratory that’s looking specifically at what we call ‘the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.’

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get...