AIDS researcher Dr. Michael Gottlieb talks to the Daily Princetonian

By MICHAEL GRANOVETTER 

SENIOR WRITER

Dr. Michael Gottlieb, who in 1981 identified a disease now known as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, spoke on campus Thursday afternoon about lessons the public and scientific communities have learned from the epidemic. The Daily Princetonian spoke with him about his career and the future of HIV/AIDS research.

The Daily Princetonian: You’re in a relatively unique situation, specializing in a disease that didn’t exist when you went through your medical training. Did you ever anticipate your career evolving the way that it did?

HIV/AIDS Neutralizing Antibody Points To New Path For Vaccine

Posted by Claire Shefchik - thirdage.com

An antibody that gains hold of the HIV/AIDS virus has revealed a new potential target for developing a vaccine for the virus, a Scripps Research Institute study showed.

A short poem, performed from the viewpoint of the falsely maligned HIV

Lifeboat: HIV - Daring to Share

The Lifeboat Project is a unique web-documentary that focuses on the experiences of families living in Europe as they come to terms with HIV/AIDS.

The Lifeboat Project is a living, online archive in which five families, living in Europe, talk candidly about many taboo subjects: love, sex, pain, secrecy and ways of coping in a world that can be very judgemental. Stigma is still a big problem, even in Europe. Our films are being shown internationally at the grass roots level, in hospitals as part of psycho-social support, in educational programmes and in global AIDS campaigns.