David Crowe
Rethinking AIDS President
HBSc Hons. Biology/Mathematics, 1978 (Lakehead University, Ontario). President, Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society. Former President and Treasurer, Green Party of Alberta.
david.crowe@rethinkingaids.com
Etienne de Harven, MD
Rethinking AIDS Past President
Member and Professor in cell biology, Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, 1956-1981. Isolated and obtained the first electron microscopic studies of the murine Friend leukemia virus, and retroviral budding. Director of the Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the Banting Institute, Department of Pathology, University of Toronto. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
etienne.deharven@rethinkingaids.com
And, in alphabetical order (by last name):
Henry Bauer, PhD
PhD (chemistry) University of Sydney (1956); Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies and Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Author of The
Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory (McFarland 2007) as well as 5 books on science, 3 in chemistry, and To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean (under the pen-name 'Josef Martin'). Personal website at henryhbauer.homestead.com, blog about HIV/AIDS at hivskeptic.wordpress.com.
Peter H. Duesberg, PhD
Professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1968-1970 he demonstrated that influenza virus has a segmented genome. This would explain its unique ability to form recombinants by reassortment of subgenomic segments. He isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This, and his subsequent work in the same field, resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health from 1985-1992. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
peter.duesberg@rethinkingaids.com
Charles L. Geshekter, PhD
Professor of African history at California State University, Chico, recipient of grants from the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Hayes, National Endowment for the Humanities and Social Science Research Council. From 1991-95, he chaired the History of Science Section of the AAAS and was a member of its Executive Council. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
charles.geshekter@rethinkingaids.com
Roberto Giraldo, MD
(University of Antioquia, Colombia, specialty internal medicine) ; Master of Science in infectious and tropical diseases (U. of London, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). Member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
roberto.giraldo@rethinkingaids.com
Claus Koehnlein, MD
Specialist in internal medicine, Dept. of Oncology, Univ. of Kiel, Germany (1983 -1993). Since 1993, in private practice increasingly treating HIV- positive people who decline antiviral drugs. Member of SA Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
claus.koehnlein@rethinkingaids.com
Helen Lauer, PhD
Associate Professor and Head of Philosphy at the University of Ghana with a PhD from City University in New York. She teaches Ethics, Logic, several types of Philosophy and Critical Thinking for both Humanities and Science students. Her specialties are in the philosophy of mind and language and action theory. She has edited and contributed to two books on the history and philosophy of science and is also editing and contributing to the upcoming books entitled “Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives” and “Thinking Straight about Epidemics, STDs and AIDS in Ghana” (English and Twi). She is the editor of the forthcoming “Culture and Justice”. Dr. Lauer has also published many journal articles, delivered several papers at academic conferences, contributed chapters to anthologies and has produced many other short publications such as review articles.
Robert Leppo
BA, Stanford University (1965); MBA, Harvard Business School (1969). Historian, philanthropist, and investor.
robert.leppo@rethinkingaids.com
Frank Lusardi
Professional software development.
frank.lusardi@rethinkingaids.com
David Rasnick, PhD
Senior Researcher, Rath Health Foundation, Africa. Between 1978 and 1996, he worked as a pharmaceutical protein chemist at Abbott Laboratories, Enzyme Systems Products, Prototek, Inc., and Khepri Pharmaceuticals. He was a visiting scholar at the department of molecular and cell biology, UC Berkeley (1996-2005), where he worked in the Duesberg laboratory on the aneuploidy theory of cancer. He is also a member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
david.rasnick@rethinkingaids.com
Gordon Stewart, MD
Emeritus Professor of Public Health, Univ Glasgow, UK; Formerly professor of epidemiology, Univ. NC at Chapel Hill, NC; Watkins Chair of Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA; Consultant, New York City Health Dept; WHO; Senior Visiting Fellow, US National Science Foundation; Emeritus Fellow, Infectious Diseases Society of America. Member of South Africa's Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel.
gordon.stewart@rethinkingaids.com