FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, November 21, 2008
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2008-11-21

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, November 21, 2008
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 187 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Went to dinner party at Ellen and Gerry Sigal’s home. Present were
Chris Grady, Ellen, Gerry, Richard and Donna Benveniste, Bill and Melody Wilson,
Larry and Carla Silverstein, Neera Tanden and husband Dan. Neera is on the Obama
transition team and I am sure that Ellen in her quest to get me to become NIH Director set
this up for us to meet. I am very reluctant to take the job and soon I will likely have to
tell the Obama people “no” if they ask.

Prior to the Sigal dinner party I gave remarks at the opening reception for the TAG
Workshop on Eliminating Viral Persistence and Eradicating HIV infection. This is
becoming a very hot issue that I have been pushing in the sense of a “functional” cure.