FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, October 24, 2003
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2003-10-24

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, October 24, 2003
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 83 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Met with Sen. Barbara Mikulski to try to convince her not to support
Rep. Chris Van Hollen’s attempt to block the construction of the biodefense building
(Bldg. 33) on the NIH campus and move it to Ft. Detrick. He keeps calling it a bioterror
building. She was sympathetic, but indicated that we must engage the community more.
Fact is….we have been doing this, but a very recalcitrant few do not want to building on
campus no matter what. This is the same group that did not want to fence put up around
NIH. This is a political issue since Van Hollen made 2 campaign promises: 1) no fence;
and 2) no biodefense building. He already lost the first and does not want to lose the
second. We will try to work with him. Also present at the meeting were several of
Mikulski’s staff, Elias Zerhouni, John La Montagne, and Marc Smolonsky. Also, I
hosted Julie Gerberding to deliver the NIAID Joseph Kinyoun Lecture and then took her
to dinner with John La Montagne, Ed Tramont, Pamela McInnes.