Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.