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Science 21 May 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5418, p. 1245
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5418.1245a
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An AIDS research center created by and named after virologist Luc Montagnier, co-discoverer of HIV, has gone belly-up. The Luc Montagnier Center, based at St. Joseph Hospital in Paris, was founded 3 years ago with money raised by a French telethon. But the funds have run out, and last week Montagnier filed for bankruptcy.

The center enrolled nearly 500 HIV-positive patients in a combined program of outpatient clinical care and research, a concept that guided Montagnier's creation of similar centers in the Ivory Coast, Rome, and New York. The Paris center's studies had focused on understanding natural resistance to HIV, identifying immune system targets on the virus, and developing new therapies. But although the hospital will continue to care for the patients, "there will be no more research," says immunologist Alberto Beretta, the center's scientific director. He and four other researchers are now looking for new jobs.

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