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LifeScience AlleyRyan Baird, Copyright Business Wire 2009. OFFICIAL OPEN CLOSEInd8,213.60 8,426.74Tran 3,152.39 3,366.53Util 343.34 347.34Comp 2,839.18 2,940.46 Stocks Stocks. Gallo and Montagnier: A Global Call to Action From HIV Co-Discoverers ThisFridayWHO:HIV Co-Discoverers Robert C Gallo and Luc A. MontagnierWHAT:A Global Call to Action From HIV Co-Discoverers HIV Remains a Global ThreatWHEN:Friday, May 8, 200910 a.m. - 11 a.m.Time for one-on-one broadcast interviews immediatelyfollowing the press conference - contact Nora Grannell at or call O: 410-706-1954 or M:443-823-0613; or Karen Buckelew at or call O: (410)706-7590 or M: (410)456-3705WHERE:National Press Club529 14th St., NWWashington, D.C. 20045*** If time permits, questions may be taken from dial-in: National: 1-800-9097810 and International: 1-212-231-2910*** FTP site with B-Roll will be availableABOUT THE GLOBAL CALL TO ACTIONThis global call to action coincides with the 25th anniversary of thepublishing of Dr.
Gallo's and his National Cancer Institute colleagues' fourkey groundbreaking articles in Science magazine, May 4, 1984 Vol 224 (#4648). These four papers proved how the then-new, deadly virus was the cause of AIDS.This significant global contribution lead to the development of the HIV bloodtest that enabled doctors to diagnose individuals and help control thepandemic, while paving the way for drug and vaccine research initiated at theNational Cancer Institute.These reports followed the publication by Dr.Montagnier's and his Institut Pasteur co-workers' who showed the firstexistence of this new retrovirus.Dr. Gallo, now director of the Institute of Human Virology at the Universityof Maryland School of Medicine, and Dr. Montagnier are participating in ascientific symposium entitled "25 Years After Discovering HIV as the Cause ofAIDS," co-hosted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine and theNational Cancer Institute and held May 9-11, 2009.For more information,please visit http:// of Human Virology of the University of Maryland School ofMedicine.