[134.174.120.71]) by flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k57EJk7s063157; Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:19:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pautissi@bidmc.harvard.edu) Received: from EVS3.its.caregroup.org ([10.25.72.16]) by SR41GUNSTOCK.its.caregroup.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:19:48 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: ISAC and Team Athletes Racing for Charity Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:19:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3630FB928B3CE24C910274FD1915A1DD204F9E@EVS3.its.caregroup.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ISAC and Team Athletes Racing for Charity Thread-Index: AcaJ49d/p38F11E3TW2swwSbQ3FphwAWVTgg From: <pautissi@bidmc.harvard.edu> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2006 14:19:48.0526 (UTC) FILETIME=[6EEC5CE0:01C68A3D] X-Spam-Score: -4.74 () BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu id k57EJk7s063157 [ Coordinator's note: We have a link to a longer edition of Patrick's Newsletter on [ the front page of our website and a copy of the newsletter itself at [ http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/arc/arc2.htm [ as well as a link to Patrick's website at http://www.team-arc.org [ [ Steve Dear all, Team Athletes Racing for Charity has been very busy over the last weeks, setting up, training for the big ride, and trying to get everything under control. Now that we're just 6 days before the start, let me give you an update. I've been invited by Pr. Robinson, President of the International Society of Analytical Cytology, to the ISAC meeting held in Quebec City last week to present our team ARC project. I had a booth inside of the Convention Centre where I could give details of the project and fundraising to the attendees. However, the highlight of this invitation was for me the tremendous opportunity to present our project to the entire congress (more than 1,300 attendees), just before Stephen Lewis' lecture entitled: "Science and Advocacy: The Best Hope to Defeat the Pandemic of AIDS". Stephen Lewis, Canadian of the Year in 2003, and in 2005 one of TIME magazines 100 Most Influential People in The World, was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as his Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa in 2001. His description of the situation in Africa regarding the pandemic was so incredibly powerful and emotional that we all felt we were in Africa for an hour. The quality of life over there is very different from what we are familiar with. Access to drugs for HIV infected people, despite tremendous efforts from non-profit organizations like PIH or the Stephen Lewis Foundation, is still very limited. Stephen Lewis has urged everyone at the meeting to get involved (money, advocacy, science) to get rid of this pandemic. And this is exactly the message that Team Athletes Racing for Charity want to pass along. Read more at www.team-arc.org Thank you very much for your help, Patrick Autissier Patrick Autissier Flow Cytometry Specialist Division of Viral Pathogenesis Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School 41 Avenue Louis Pasteur Boston, MA 02115 Office: 617-667-1562 Fax: 617-667-8210 email: pautissi@bidmc.harvard.eduReceived on Thu Jun 8 12:58:00 2006
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