Abstract
It all started with a letter published in Chemical & Engineering News and an error in translation. In September 2004, Bego Gerber wrote a letter in response to a story that mentioned a carbohydrate vaccine for typhoid that was languishing for want of a company to produce it. In that letter, he urged chemists to take up the cause of the vaccine to help get it commercialized. “Could this be our ‘Chemists Without Frontiers,’ a la ‘Medicins Sans Frontieres?’ ” he wrote, incorrectly translating the French name of the organization Doctors Without Borders. The rest, as they say, is history. Steve Chambreau contacted Gerber and asked, “Don’t you mean Chemists Without Borders?” Of course, that’s what he meant, and together they decided to start such an organization. Volunteers from the organization, Chemists Without Borders (CWB), described its activities at a symposium sponsored by the Division of Analytical Chemistry at last month’s
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