Turmoil for AIDS Conference Organizers

Conflict between former conference organizers has shuttered a website that has come to serve as a resource for the HIV/AIDS community.

| 2 min read

Register for free to listen to this article
Listen with Speechify
0:00
2:00
Share

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.”

...

Interested in reading more?

Become a Member of

The Scientist Logo
Receive full access to more than 35 years of archives, as well as TS Digest, digital editions of The Scientist, feature stories, and much more!
Already a member? Login Here

Keywords

Meet the Author

  • Kate Yandell

    This person does not yet have a bio.
Share
3D illustration of a gold lipid nanoparticle with pink nucleic acid inside of it. Purple and teal spikes stick out from the lipid bilayer representing polyethylene glycol.
February 2025, Issue 1

A Nanoparticle Delivery System for Gene Therapy

A reimagined lipid vehicle for nucleic acids could overcome the limitations of current vectors.

View this Issue
Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

Considerations for Cell-Based Assays in Immuno-Oncology Research

Lonza
An illustration of animal and tree silhouettes.

From Water Bears to Grizzly Bears: Unusual Animal Models

Taconic Biosciences
Sex Differences in Neurological Research

Sex Differences in Neurological Research

bit.bio logo
New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

New Frontiers in Vaccine Development

Sino

Products

Tecan Logo

Tecan introduces Veya: bringing digital, scalable automation to labs worldwide

Explore a Concise Guide to Optimizing Viral Transduction

A Visual Guide to Lentiviral Gene Delivery

Takara Bio
Inventia Life Science

Inventia Life Science Launches RASTRUM™ Allegro to Revolutionize High-Throughput 3D Cell Culture for Drug Discovery and Disease Research

An illustration of differently shaped viruses.

Detecting Novel Viruses Using a Comprehensive Enrichment Panel

Twist Bio