Robert Shafer M.D.

Dr. Shafer is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Stanford University. His research deals with the mechanisms and consequences of HIV evolution. An online database (http://hivdb.stanford.edu) created by Dr Shafer provides a public resource to assist epidemiologists in performing HIV drug surveillance, physicians in interpreting HIV drug resistance tests, and industry in developing new antiretroviral drugs. Dr. Shafer is the Technical Director of the Stanford Genotypic Antiretroviral Resistance Testing Program. This program provides testing for the nationwide surveillance program for HIV-1 drug resistance sponsored by US CDC. He is the principal investigator for several NIH-funded programs in HIV drug resistance.

Shafer's Integrity versus Stanford's Expediency: Tangled Patent Dispute Over 'Free' Drug-Resistance Database, Science 27 February 2009.

Bob Shafer continues his public battle involving patent rights.

Joe Mullen: The Fight of His Life. IP Law and Business. Apr/May 2009 http://harmfulpatents.org/Indexed/primary/IPLawBusiness.pdf

Stanford Provost apologizes to Shafer for ABL deal: http://harmfulpatents.org/abl-stanford-dispute/#Apology