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Mary Lou Clements-Mann and her husband, Jonathan Mann, were remembered at a memorial service on Wednesday, Sept. 16, at the School of Public Health. Clements-Mann, professor of International Health, founding director of the Center for Immunization Research and an internationally known virologist and AIDS researcher, and Mann, a prominent AIDS researcher and visiting professor at Hopkins, died Sept. 2 in the Swissair jetliner crash off the coast of Canada. They were en route to a U.N. AIDS vaccine conference in Geneva. Both were 51. More than 400 friends and colleagues filled the school's East Wing Auditorium and four other locations for a service whose speakers included Alfred Sommer, dean of the school; Brian Murphy, head of the respiratory viruses section of the NIH Laboratory of Infectious Diseases; Lawrence O. Gostin, professor of law at Georgetown University and professor at the Hopkins School of Public Health; R. Gordon Douglas Jr., president of the Merck Vaccine Division of Merck & Company; Donald P. Francis, president of VaxGen, Inc.; and D.A. Henderson, University Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Public Health. Dean Sommer and Robert Black, chairman of International Health, have announced the creation of The Clements-Mann Fellowship Fund in Vaccine Sciences.
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