“The point I want to make specifically to the young people in the crowd—the pre-docs, the postdocs, the young investigators—is that what happens in this meeting in a very incipient form over a period of time becomes the reality of what we are dealing with and then the implementation of something that’s clinically actionable,” Fauci said as the keynote speaker at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2023.