FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, October 18, 2013
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2013-10-18

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, October 18, 2013
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 325–328 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Terrific meeting today. Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer of
Janssen research Foundation, part of Johnson & Johnson called me months ago asking to
have a meeting since he wanted to support and develop the Ad26 vector – HIV mosaic
insert vaccine candidate of Dan Barouch. I have always liked working with Paul since
he is the real deal as an honest scientist and smart drug developer/businessman. He came
in from Belgium with a team from Crucell company that was recently purchased by

Following the visit to Larry I went back to my hotel which was the Hotel Excelsior on
81st St. between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West. The ceremony at the
Museum of Natural History was stunning in the positive sense. I completely
underestimated the importance of this particular function. The annual function makes

three major awards to biotech companies, pharmaceutical companies, and companies that
develop devices. It is essentially the Academy Awards of pharmaceutical/biotech
companies. I gave the keynote address associated with my receiving the Pro Bono
Humanum Award. This award is given every year. Over the past 3 years it has been
won by Francis Collins, Paul Farmer, and Bill Clinton. The dinner gala was held in the
Whale Room of the Museum of Natural History. All the elite of the biotech world, the
pharmaceutical world, and the academic world were in the audience, which consisted of
about 500 people I gave an address on “Ending the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: From
Scientific Advances to Public Health Implementation. Importantly I was introduced and
presented the award by Elie Wiesel. It was an extraordinary honor to receive the award
by him. I returned to Washington DC first thing in the morning to a very busy week.