July 27, 2010

Elly Katabira Is New President of International AIDS Society

The International AIDS Society (IAS) has named Elly Katabira, MD, its new president and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, PhD, as president-elect, according to an IAS statement. Katabira, a professor of medicine at Makerere University in Uganda, becomes the first African to hold the position. Barre-Sinoussi, a Nobel Laureate of Medicine and a member of the French Academy of Science, will become IAS president in July 2012.

To read the IAS statement, click here.

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