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DATE: FRIDAY, November 5, 1993                   TAG: 9311050169
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

PIONEER AIDS SCIENTIST CLEARED OF MISCONDUCT

Dr. Mikulas Popovic, co-author of a study that established the cause of AIDS, was declared innocent of misconduct Thursday by an appeals board.

A review board of the Department of Health and Human Services said the department failed to prove Popovic guilty of "relatively minor" misconduct.

Popovic was a senior scientist in the National Institutes of Health laboratory of Dr. Robert Gallo. In 1984, they were to the first to culture and identify a specific virus as the cause of AIDS.

They came under investigation in 1990, accused of falsifying information in AIDS studies. - Associated Press 


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