The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Program announced that Dr. Stefano Bertozzi will join as HIV director effective 31 August 2009. Dr. Bertozzi “will lead a team that manages the foundation’s portfolio of grants in HIV vaccine development, biomedical prevention research, diagnostics, development and resistance monitoring, and strategies for introduction and scaling-up of the foundation, said, “Stefano brings a wealth of experience to his new role. His intimate knowledge of the medicine, science, economics and policy of HIV will help make this important portfolio have the most impact.” Gates said that Dr. Bertozzi worked with the foundation in his previous roles at UNAIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. For the last 11 years, he has been with the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) in Mexico. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/Pages/dr-stefano-bertozzi-leading-hiv-vaccine-team-090826.aspx