Expediency, Cost-Cutting Trump Science in Peg-Intron Clinical Development Plan By Tracy Swan The Head-to-Head That Wasn't In October of 2003, Schering-Plough held a meeting with HCV and HIV/HCV advocates where they announced a "new" Schering -- one that prioritizes earning…
January: HIV vaccine papers in Nature by Merck's Emilio Emini, Harvard's Dan Barouch. February: First ATAC (AIDS Treatment Activist Conference) teach-in, Seattle (seventy people attend), followed by ATAC/BMS meeting and Retrovirus conference. NIH cancels large phase III canarypox HIV vaccine…
January: TAG's Gregg Gonsalves becomes GMHC Director of Treatment Policy. Completion of STI Workshop 2000 report. FDA hearing on salvage therapy trial design. Merck meeting on promising DNA/adenovirus HIV vaccine. TAG mobilizes 600 signatures on global letter to Glaxo decrying…
January: NIH workshops on long term effectiveness research, studies designed to look at "when to start" and switch HAART, and for long-term side effects. TAG hires Yvette Delph as new Antiviral Project Director. Completion of TAG's AIDS Vaccine Research at…
Critical Issues From TAG's Forthcoming HCV/HIV Co-Infection Report and Analysis By Tracy Swan Research Still Lags Tracy Swan's teaser sneak preview of her upcoming Hepatitis C/HIV Co-infection Report (Version 2.0), slated for release this spring, is now available as both…
January: amfAR's Paul Corser dies after a nine-year struggle with AIDS. FDA approves Glaxo's atovaquone (Mepron) for the prevention of PCP pneumonia. ACT UP/Needle Exchange activist Rod Sorge dies. Retrovirus conference, Chicago. Beatrice Hahn presents on the HIV-1's chimp origins;…
January: TAG community meeting at which John Moore gives update on vaccine research. TAG board member Marvin Shulman says farewell to New York life and heads for a full-time residency in South Miami Beach. FDA approves dental dams. Monica Lewinsky…
Jan 22 Treatment Action Group (TAG) splits off from the Treatment + Data (T+D) Committee of ACT UP/New York. Our media debut: Catherine Woodard's "AIDS Hit Squad Seeks More Than Attention," Newsday, 1.22.92. Jan 27 Eight Treatment Action Guerillas…
Jan 8: TAG meets with NIH Director Bernadine Healy re: the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) legislation. She's non-committal. Jan 16: Hoffmann-La Roche community meeting disrupted by ACT UP and TAG. Shrimp cocktail goes flying. Two arrests. Jan 20:…
Jan 7: FDA approves Bactrim and Septra (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) for prevention against PCP -- fourteen years after the first AIDS PCP cases were reported. Jan 18: TAG meets with Genetics Institute about IL-12 study results. (The IL-12 treated monkeys had died.)…