Seeking a Cure for AIDS

Jeffrey Laurence, MD [AIDS Reader. 2008;18:228, 234]

| May 1, 2008

Dr Laurence is professor of medicine and director of the Laboratory for AIDS Virus Research, New York Presbyterian Hospital—Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York; senior scientific consultant for programs, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research; and editor in chief of The AIDS Reader.

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