FLICKR, NIAIDThe website for the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), a major US HIV/AIDS meeting, is currently offline following a conflict between the two groups that formerly organized the event, ScienceInsider reported.
CROI, which has taken place annually for the past 20 years, has been the site of many important announcements in the history of HIV/AIDS research. The conference website was host to years’ worth of conference abstracts and other resources for AIDS researchers and the public.
The nonprofit CROI Foundation and the for-profit CROI LLC have previously been responsible for organizing the conference each year. But the two groups appear to have had a falling out. “I’m not allowed by our confidentially agreement to divulge anything,” Constance Benson, CROI Foundation board president and a professor at the University of California, San Diego, told ScienceInsider. “We reached an impasse this past couple of years over several issues and decided we needed to go in a different direction.”
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