IHV Directors and Staff meet with Zambian Presidential Delegation

Baltimore, MD - The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) directors and staff meet the Zambian presidential delegation in front of Maryland, U.S. and Zambian flags at the beginning of the presidential visit to IHV, June 21, 2005. Many senior officials from Africa were in Baltimore June 21-24 for the Corporate Council on Africa's Biennial US-Africa Business Summit.

(From left to right) IHV Associate Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield; Zambian Minister of Foreign Affairs Honorable Ronnie Shikapwasha; Zambian Ambassador to the United States Her Excellency Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika; IHV JACQUES Initiative Treatment Coach Harriet Kapilikisha; His Excellency President Levy P. Mwanawasa; IHV Director Dr. Robert C. Gallo; IHV Associate Director Dr. William A. Blattner; Zambian Minister of Communications and Transport; IHV Chief Operating Officer Dave Wilkins.

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Celebrating our 20th anniversary year, UMBI is the first and only biotechnology research institute within the University System of Maryland and was established in 1985. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) consists of five major research and education centers and is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of biotechnology. UMBI’s centers of research include: CARB, the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology located in Rockville; CBR, the Center for Biosystems Research located in College Park; and COMB, the Center of Marine Biotechnology, MBC, the Medical Biotechnology Center, and IHV, the Institute of Human Virology, all located in Baltimore. For more information, visit www.umbi.umd.edu