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ARTICLE | Strategy

Stay or go?

April 19, 1993 7:00 AM UTC

WASHINGTON - MicroGeneSys Inc., no longer the exclusive beneficiary of a $20 million appropriation to test its AIDS vaccine and unhappy with the probable conditions of an NIH-run comparison trial of several competing products, now has to decide whether it wants to participate.

The Department of Defense last week finally agreed to transfer the $20 million from the Army, once earmarked for an exclusive trial of MicroGeneSys' gp160 therapeutic vaccine, to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the NIH organization which conducts AIDS research...