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Thread: When will the FightAIDS @ Home project finish? |
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Nevada Bob
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 174 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just my guess, but I think this project might finish in about one year and four months from now. Putting it at July 2012.
Anyone else with a guess, care to give it a shot? |
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deltavee
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Anyone else with a guess, care to give it a shot? I'll guess August 6, 2012. |
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gb009761
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When they find a cure
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Anyone else with a guess, care to give it a shot? I'll guess August 6, 2012.Are you sure a definite cure will be found at that exact date? This is an open-ended project, which will only be finished when a cure is really found, or when the researchers believe it's time to move on to a new project... |
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deltavee
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Are you sure a definite cure will be found at that exact date? Where did that come from? The subject of this thread is not abaout when will a cure be found. We are guessing when the project will end. |
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mgl_ALPerryman
FightAIDS@Home, GO Fight Against Malaria and OpenZika Scientist USA Joined: Aug 25, 2007 Post Count: 283 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello Nevada_Bob,
There is not yet a definite answer to that question. The duration of the FightAIDS@Home project depends on many different variables, such as: How many new experiments can we design against HIV that are worthy of World Community Grid resources? (short answer = many more) Will the NIH continue to fund our collaborative HIV research? (short answer = We certainly hope so, but the NIH budget has been constantly under attack since ~ 2000.) When will we or other scientists discover new drugs that are able to work effectively and safely against all of the multi-drug-resistant mutant "superbugs" of HIV that currently exist or that will ever evolve? (short answer = We have no idea. We'll keep working on it until it is no longer a global health problem.) Thank you for your support, Alex L. Perryman, Ph.D. |
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Mathon
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According to recent charts there are 472 days of tasks left...
----------------------------------------keep in mind this is a rough estimate, and if new experiments are added this number could change drastically  |
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always good to hear from the scientists, thanks for your reply.
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Former Member
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thanks.
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Former Member
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Hello Nevada_Bob, There is not yet a definite answer to that question. The duration of the FightAIDS@Home project depends on many different variables, such as: How many new experiments can we design against HIV that are worthy of World Community Grid resources? (short answer = many more) Will the NIH continue to fund our collaborative HIV research? (short answer = We certainly hope so, but the NIH budget has been constantly under attack since ~ 2000.) When will we or other scientists discover new drugs that are able to work effectively and safely against all of the multi-drug-resistant mutant "superbugs" of HIV that currently exist or that will ever evolve? (short answer = We have no idea. We'll keep working on it until it is no longer a global health problem.) Thank you for your support, Alex L. Perryman, Ph.D. Thank you very much Dr. Perryman. |
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