As a former research associate in the Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMS) virology department, I worked in conjunction with our chemistry department on HIV protease research. Most of the sorts of questions posed by the article by Robert Root- Bernstein in the April 4, 1994, issue of The Scientist [page 1] are not addressed by BMS or most pharmaceutical companies. Their focus tends to be exclusively drug discovery, meaning groups work on enzy

As a former research associate in the Bristol Myers-Squibb (BMS) virology department, I worked in conjunction with our chemistry department on HIV protease research. Most of the sorts of questions posed by the article by Robert Root- Bernstein in the April 4, 1994, issue of The Scientist [page 1] are not addressed by BMS or most pharmaceutical companies. Their focus tends to be exclusively drug discovery, meaning groups work on enzy