FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, September 30, 2009
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2009-09-30

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 218 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Wonderful day at NIH. POTUS came in the AM with the Secretary,
Bill Corr (Deputy Secretary) and Francis. Marston Linehan and I showed him a lab in the
new CRC. First Marston spoke about the genetics of renal cancer and then Francis spoke
about the cancer genome atlas. I then spoke to the POTUS about the history of HIV
research here in the Clinical Center. I spoke about how I admitted the first AIDS patients
in 1981 and how they all died. I then spoke about the major advances in antiretroviral
drug development and testing that has transformed the treatment and survival of HIV-
infected individuals. I spoke about the recent results of the Thai HIV vaccine trial. He
was very engaging, pleasant, funny but serious about the subject. He definitely now has
fixed in his mind who I am. When I told him that I had been here since 1968, he joked