Penny Moore

These are the freezers that contain the samples that are the basis of everything we do in the lab.

Our freezers are named after the seven dwarves.

So you have happy and grumpy, and every freezer in the lab is named after somebody.

It's heavy and hard for me to lift.

So this is blood and cells.

They live in the communities that are most ravaged by HIV.

And they donate their samples because they hope to see an end to an epidemic that is really, really real for them.

The amount we have learned from these freezes, it's just astonishing.

The famous Zanzibar trip.

One of those places where you just consider standing up and you break out in a sweat.

They grueled us to within an inch of our lives to make sure that we were doing the very best cutting-edge science we could do with the amount of money we had.

from the number of Americans particularly checking their phones all of a sudden and talking to one another in little huddles.

I remember at the end of the meeting, a USAID colleague saying to me, I'm not sure if I'll see you again.

I completely underestimated how much it would gut the program.

It's a bare-bones version.

We will still get the answer, but it's going to cost us time, years, which is not trivial because people are getting infected with this virus constantly.

These samples have taught us everything we know about HIV.

A broadly neutralising antibody could stop my virus and could stop your virus and could stop an HIV virus from any other person.

And in many cases, up to 90% of global viruses could be stopped by one antibody.

Most of us are scared of getting HIV.