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Ex-CDC Official Denies Wrongdoing in HIV Vaccine Deal

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 6th, 2000

A former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official on February 17, 2000, denied any wrongdoing in the allocation of $8 million to study an HIV vaccine made by the company that now employs him.

The Chicago Tribune newspaper reported on February 17 that Dr. William Heyward, the former chief of the CDC's HIV vaccine unit, helped Brisbane, California-based VaxGen land the grant in October 1999 before joining the company in January 2000.

Heyward, now VaxGen's vice president for international trials, told The Associated Press that while he was in favor of the grant when working for the CDC, several other government officials had to...

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