New NIH pact on AIDS vaccines

BETHESDA, Md - Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, unveiled a blueprint for development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine that includes restructuring NIH's interactions with industry to make them far more predictable.

The plan is intended to jump-start vaccine development, which has lagged behind other AIDS treatment and prevention research, Fauci said last week. The plan is the basis for a collaboration between NIAID and Pasteur Merieux-Connaught and Chiron Biocine that could lead to a Phase II trial of a "prime-plus-boost" canary pox HIV vaccine by the first half of 1997. ...