April 28, 2022 Allyson J. Bennett, Jeremy D. Bailoo, Sangy Panicker 1964.  Lead scientist, Jerome P. Horwitz, working on new cancer treatments developed azidothymidine in 1964. Their work was funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI, Grant #’s CY-5943 and CA-02903), one of the institutes within the publicly-funded US National Institutes of Health (NIH).  It … Continue reading What is failure?  Shelved cancer treatment becomes first effective AIDS/HIV treatment