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PRESS RELEASE
Dr. Anthony Fauci and Philadelphia FIGHT’s Jane Shull Receive
Wistar Legacy Award at 25th Anniversary of Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture
Virtual event celebrates local HIV research and advocacy influencers/communities
that paved way for global HIV impact
Virtual Wistar Legacy Awards & 25th Jonathan Lax Lecture
PHILADELPHIA—(October 14, 2021)—The Wistar Institute is proud to announce Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH); Jane Shull, chief executive officer of Philadelphia FIGHT; philanthropist Ken Nimblett; Philadelphia Foundation and the Robert I. Jacobs Fund; and Philadelphia FIGHT will be honored at the Wistar Legacy Awards, a celebration of 25 years of continuous HIV research collaboration on Thursday, October 28 from 5:30 to 7:45 p.m.
Fauci will also deliver the 25th Annual Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture at this virtual, Wistar-hosted event. Fauci’s lecture highlights research advances and the NIH’s approximately 75 percent increase in HIV cure-directed funding made in 2021, equaling approximately $53 million annually over the next five years. Other guest speakers include David Fair, HIV/LGBTQ activist and founder of Lavender Health (now the Mazzoni Center) and the AIDS Activities Coordinating Office; Ronda Goldfein, Esq., activist and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania; and former Philadelphia mayor Reverend Doctor W. Wilson Goode, director and CEO of the Amachi Program mentoring children with incarcerated parents.
Focused on developing HIV/AIDS treatment strategies and moving research towards an HIV cure, Luis J. Montaner, D.V.M., D.Phil., Herbert Kean, M.D., Family Endowed Chair Professor, leader of the HIV Research Program at The Wistar Institute, and co-principal investigator of the BEAT-HIV Delaney Collaboratory, recognizes how a 25 year joint endeavor with the support of all Legacy Award recipients has grown into a global academic-industry program bringing together scientists, advocates, clinicians, and people living with HIV in and out of Philadelphia.
“The Wistar Legacy Awards recognize 25 years of continued teamwork that has resulted in high-impact research advances, community engagement, and a true hope for a day that HIV will be cured,” said Montaner. “What started with local efforts centered in research supported by the NIH, philanthropic efforts including the Philadelphia Foundation, and local community engagement through Philadelphia FIGHT, has now grown into a large global network, and a center of excellence for cure-directed research for the benefit of people living with HIV.”
“It is a special moment for Wistar to honor the work accomplished with our collaborators, where for more than 25 years we have focused on developing a global scientific strategy for HIV cure research,” said Dario C. Altieri, M.D., Wistar president and CEO, director of The Wistar Institute Cancer Center.
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