TOM ZUBACK
The founding chairman of The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), Mathilde Krim, died Monday (January 15). She was 91.
When the first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, Krim, then the director of the Interferon Lab at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, recognized the disease’s potential to begin an epidemic. She founded the AIDS Medical Foundation (AMF), the first private organization dedicated to supporting research into the disease, with physician and AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend and colleagues in April 1983. A few years later, AMF merged with the National AIDS Research Foundation to become amfAR.
“My greatest AIDS hero has died,” Peter Staley, a gay rights activist and veteran of the activist group ACT UP, tweeted on Tuesday. He added that Krim was ...
