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3 unusual facts about Lawrence Corey


Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries


The Task Force is a 36-member body combining leaders in cancer and global health and co-chaired by Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Lawrence Corey, President and Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Lawrence Corey

In 2008, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the (US) National Academy of Sciences.

In 1987 Corey directed the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, or ACTG, which conducted pivotal clinical trials confirming the use of the antiretroviral drug AZT to reduce maternal-fetal transmission of HIV and the usefulness of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).



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