TWO government agencies in the US are about to waste tens of millions of
dollars by running separate trials of almost identical AIDS vaccination regimes,
claims a controversial commentary in Nature.
In it, John Moore, an AIDS researcher at Cornell University’s Weill Medical
College in New York City, argues that one of the two vaccine trials planned for
2002 should be scrapped. One is led by the US Department of Defense, the other
by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Both trials will test very similar
vaccine regimes: a dose of canary pox virus engineered to express HIV-1
proteins,…
