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Credibility of U.S. AIDS test patent "damaged." (news leaks on Robert Gallo investigation) (U.S. National Institutes of Health)
U.S. NIH
Doubts about the validity of the U.S. claim to a share of the HIV blood test apparently reach as high as U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Bernadine Healy, Science magazine reports.
The 1987 patent agreement between the French and American governments was intended to end the unseemly squabble - and litigation - between Robert C. Gallo of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute over who had first isolated HIV and developed a test for the virus. But an investigation into an alleged cover-up of evidence against the U.S. patent has made many observers wonder whether the Americans are entitled to …
