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… s), Bill Winkenwerder (DoD), Senator Don Nichols (R-OK), Congressman Dave Weldon (R- FL), Linda Conlin (Assist. Secr. For Trade Development, Dept. of Commerce, Ann Peterson (USAID), plus many other VIPs plus a large number of CEO-types in industry such as Hank McKinnel …

… but the real theme was prevention. The meeting was opened by Bill Clinton and Bill and Melinda Gates. I did a lot of press during the meeting and after I returned (Diane Rehm Show). August 28-29, 2006 – Went to Amsterdam for the AIDS Vaccine 2006 Annual Meeting. Invite …

… ientific background for the meeting which was mostly talks by African Health Ministers, Melinda Gates, Faith-Based people (Rick Warren, etc.), Paul Wolfowitz, Margaret Chan (WHO DG). I had nice chats with each of these. Purpose was to increase awareness of malaria and h …

… ce; etc. etc. Oct. 16-17, 2007 – Went to Seattle to participate (Panel) in the Bill and Melinda Gates Malaria Forum at the Sheraton Hotel at Union and 6th Streets in Downtown Seattle. Mild and on and off rain. Good meeting. Just starting to see the galvanizing of intere …

… singing chief executive is taking Pepsi in an unlikely direction--toward healthful foods. Linda Rottenberg Endeavor Her nonprofit seeks to build profitable small businesses on a global scale. Jeffrey Sachs United Nations Millennium Project An academic who looks for real …

… an A. Hrabowski (Pres. U of MD, Baltimore County, Dave Levin (Founder of KIPP Foundation, Linda Rottenberg (CEO, Endeavor), Mike Feinberg (C0-founder of KIPP), Maria Zuber (MIT). Awardees who were not there: Lance Armstrong, Jeffrey Bezos (CEO, Amazon.com), Terence Blan …

… y Awards (which actually took place the next day (Sunday) in LA. Star-studded Affair with Linda Gray (“Dallas TV Series), Donna Mills (Knots Landing) and Morgan Fairchild (old friend from AmFar days) MC’d the event. Other Awardees were Bebe Neuwirth (Broadway star) and …

… of July 18, went to terrific dinner at a vineyard (Stillness Manor) hosted in my honor by Linda-Gail Bekker. Linda Gail turned out to be fantastic as a major player in the Cape Town (and all of SA) AIDS clinical trials network that NIAID supports. Met with many South Af …

… anuel, VP Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Gen. James Jones, Mort Kondrake, Al Hunt, Bruce Reed, Linda Douglas (ABC), Bob Bennett, and many, many others.

… e Four Seasons in Georgetown at 7:00 Am with Bill Gates. Also present from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) was Stefano Bertozzi. The theme was that Bill is reluctant to fund (with NIAID) the proposed South Africa (RSA) and Thailand vaccine trial for licensu …

… Gov. He was known as Governor “Moonbeam” in the 70s during the hippy years when he dated Linda Ronstadt. However, he is an amazing person in that he just tells the truth without an obvious ideology. Anne told me that Pres. Obama completely shuns even other Democrats su …

… at the Hilton Hotel in Rockville which was a meeting between our group and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in order to determine possibilities of strengthening current collaborations and forging new collaborations. Present at the meeting were the senior lea …

Went to Lasker Lunch at the Pierre Hotel in NYC. Beautiful Fall Day. Bill and Melinda Gates won the Bloomberg-Lasker Award for Public Service that I had won a few years ago. Nice event. Bill and I discussed briefly the challenges of the P5 vaccine agenda.

… ersation today focused mostly on collaborations that I and NIAID have with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) including the P5 vaccine trials, the HIV antibody – immunogen studies, the Sanaria malaria project, etc. Excellent discussions and we will expand NIH …

… taly). Sat next to Maj. Gen. Giovanni Fantuzzi, Military Attache for the Italian Embassy, Linda Douglas (formerly of network TV and White House who was with husband, the newly appointed Ambassador to Italy, Amb. Philip. The opening of the USG was announce as we were at …

… ons over the years and I spoke with him about our ongoing collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) over the years. I did not remain for his lecture since I had to rush down to the White House for the WAD ceremony White House – Ceremony in the South …

… on before I took the “red-eye” back to DC. The formal graduation on Sunday had Bill and Melinda Gates as co-commencement speakers. They were good , but a bit self-congratulatory. I viewed the famous Stanford “Wacky Walk” entrance of the seniors. Ali and friends were dre …

Met with Nina Russell and Emilio Emini from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation (BMGF), Emilio is taking over as the Director of Global Health for BMGF and he wanted to review our mutual commitments for the AIDS vaccine plans (i.e. the P …

… me a few weeks ago by e-mail by Susan Desmond Hellman, the current CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Global Foundation. We arranged to have a teleconference between Mark and me today to discuss the issue of Mark wanting to get involved in a philanthropic way with promo …

… ast; Daily Beast – Erin Banco; LA Times Bill Shaikin about MLB opening; WCBS Radio, NYC – Linda Lopez; Financial Times -Hannah Kuchler

… me. • Went to Clinical Center to visit a young woman (Leslie Adelman) who has Von Hipple-Lindau disease and had a hemangioblastoma in her cerebellum removed last week. Since she was in the hospital she asked her neurosurgeon Dr. Kareem Zaghloul if it were possible to m …

… sover on 14,000 people. The issue is that the South Africans particularly Glenda Gray and Linda GAIL Becker need to show that the mRNA vaccine is effective in South Africa particularly among persons living with HIV. David Kessler who will be key in getting the product t …

… democracy is in dire danger. We had an important conversation today with Glenda Gray and Linda-Gail Bekker of the Republic of South Africa. The discussion centered around the fact that Glenda and Linda GAIL want to do a randomized placebo-controlled trial using the Mod …

… RESS: ABC “The Breakdown” ONLINE with Terry Moran and Kyra Phillips; MSNBC Peacock with Zelinda Maxwell;

… Jamz (Kansas City) with Julee Jonez; Cox with Kirstin Garris; WSB (ABC Atlanta, GA) with Linda Stouffer; WDIV (NBC Detroit, MI) with Dr. Frank McGeorge