Community | February 04, 2009 | 22 comments

Massachusetts businessman gives $100M to AIDS research

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29014105/

AwesomeJosh
A Massachusetts businessman is pledging $100 million to create a new institute that will search for vaccines for AIDS and other diseases.

Software entrepreneur Phillip T. Ragon announced the gift to Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday.

The hospital will get $10 million a year for the next decade to form a research institute bringing together doctors, engineers and biologists from Mass. General, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The 59-year-old Ragon is the founder and owner of Cambridge-based database software company InterSystems Corp.

The Boston Globe says Ragon decided to create the Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute after witnessing the plight of AIDS patients in South Africa.

Bruce Walker, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been named director of the institute...


Maybe he doesn't need to anymore, now that the crazy guy in the video above has already found the cure...
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  • Denica_Cassandra
  • sickinjersey
  • khromadjo
    • 0
      khromadjo  
    • sickinjersey:

      I second that. He has yet to say anything of merit for as long as I've come to this site. Moreover, I'm never sure if he's being morbidly sarcastic or legitimately idiotic. Probably both.

    • 3 years ago
  • oracleruby
  • geoMan420
  • Wessagusset_Oracle
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      Wessagusset_Oracle  

    • no people, no. we NEED aids. we brought it onto ourselves, by fucking/eating apes/monkies. this was proved recently i think. it's nature's punishment. you want aids to go away? stop fucking everyone/everything. this world is overpopulated by us, it's earth trying to keep us down. silly humans.

      awww, such a good and predictable thing, to cure aids. cancer, i understand, aids, nahhhh.

    • 3 years ago
  • bfcooper
  • odog4life
  • ejasun
  • AmbroseL
  • RudyRudell
  • ii386
  • djaked
    • 0
      djaked  
    • RudyRudell:

      Awesome beard, he must have some strange ancestry.

      No one has to stop working on anything, let us make the race to find the cure for AIDS JUST THAT indeed! A race! A global competition for emancipation from the disease most likely to destory humanity! What better way to bring developed nations together. Though the developing nations might not be happy about not even getting bronze medals, but oh well.

    • 3 years ago
  • Pookie_Savant
    • 0
      Pookie_Savant  

    • Forget the cure for a second...I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the fact that this guy has an instrument that detects the AIDS Virus... really...? wow! did I read that right?

    • 3 years ago
  • oneup
    • 0
      oneup  

    • AwesomeJosh, did you ever learn not to judge a book by the cover? Muslims brought you all of your modern day Math and Science. Pick up a book about Islam and Science sometime. BTW, the Yemeni people are very kind and generous.

    • 3 years ago
  • RudyRudell
  • AwesomeJosh
    • 0
      AwesomeJosh  
    • oneup:

      I just said he was crazy. What the hell does that have to do with him being a Muslim. I didn't say anything about the Muslims. Plus, I have come to learn if a book has a crappy cover than it is probably crap. (I am actually talking about books, not people).

    • 3 years ago
  • newbeginnings
    • 0
      newbeginnings  

    • That is extremely excellent if so. But what about other viral infections that stay with you until you die? i.e. herpes. Could this discovery lead to that as well? New study shows herpes may lead to brain cancer. Hopefully this study helps.

    • 3 years ago
  • khaichoo
    • 0
      khaichoo  

    • That is great to hear. This will definitely contribute to the research done on HIV/AIDS.

      Note: the guy in the video is saying things that can already be done thus far (meaning he is saying things that are common knowledge to researchers worldwide). According to some people's response to the triple cocktail, their levels of the virus are so low that they become undetectable.

      Just if some people didn't already know.

    • 3 years ago
  • DouginLA
  • omshaantih
    • 0
      omshaantih  

    • this is interesting because I did not know much about AIds research in USA or in the rest of the world...
      Thank you for submitting this

    • 3 years ago
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