Monday, February 4, 2008

CROI meeting in Boston. Went to show the flag, meet with African investigators from Uganda (Rakai) and see vaccine presentations. Ron Desrosiers gave his talk about the imbalance between discovery and development in vaccine agenda and said there is no evidence that any existing vaccine candidate will work. I do not necessarily disagree; however, he was terribly gratuitous in saying that “The NIH has lost its way on vaccine research”. It is easy to criticize and place blame…much easier than having creative ideas to solve the problem. He is not a bad guy, but he was an asshole today.