Research Initiative Treatment Action (RITA!); Vol 8, No. 2 Spring 2003

The Second Basic Science Workshop

Sponsored by

The Center for AIDS: Hope & Remembrance Project

and

The Center for AIDS Research at Baylor College of Medicine

Made possible with funding from

The Elliott H. Matthews Foundation, Inc.

The James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation

Robert W. Knox, Sr. and Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable Foundation

Objectives:

• To feature the work of prominent national and local bench researchers investigating the basic science of HIV infection.
  
• To promote dialogue and collaboration among Texas-based researchers and researchers in other parts of the country.
  
• To feature research that may translate to novel approaches to HIV therapeutics.
  
• To identify the implications for advocacy and activism in the work presented.

Presenters at the 2002 Basic Science Workshop (left to right): Michael Barry, PhD; Frederick Siegal, MD; Ronald Collman, MD; Sandra Bridges, PhD; John Shiver, PhD; Richard Sutton, MD, PhD; and Qizhi (Cathy) Yao, MD, PhD.

"As people who are directly and indirectly affected by this epidemic, we are very thankful for the work that you are doing. Many of us would not be here but for the work that you are doing."

—L. Joel Martinez, founder of The Center for AIDS,
in his closing remarks at the 2002 Basic Science Workshop

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