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Biotech / Medical : VaxGen Inc.-The 1st AIDS Vaccine in Phase 3 HumanTrials
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To: scion who wrote (160)1/20/2003 10:00:31 PM
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Science review on Aids vaccines written by CDC chief in secret job deal with AidsVax company

An influential paper by Dr William Heyward et al, from the US Centers for Disease Control, published in the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in Aids Care in August 1997, caricatured scientific debates over Aids vaccines as between "theorists" and "empiricists". Lambasting the "theorists" - including scientists at the National Institutes of Health and academic institutions worldwide - the paper cheers the "empiricists", who in the face of basic problems "argue that it is only through phase III efficacy trials that such dilemmas may be resolved, or that these perceived obstacles may in fact turn out to be irrelevant".

Only one phase III trial was foreseeable: that of VaxGen's AidsVax, which later featured in the 1999 Sunday Times investigation The VaxGen Experiment by Brian Deer. CDC lobbied other government agencies to support VaxGen, allocated $8m in CDC grants to the phase III and gave the company vital credibility with private investors. VaxGen distributed the paper from its headquarters in Brisbane, California, giving the impression that disinterested opinion saw merit in its strategy. But Heyward was secretly engaged to join the company as vice-president, and after Deer supplied documents to the federal inspector general for health and human services, Heyward was prosecuted and plea-bargained a $32,500 fine.

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