"The fundamental attraction for starting Retrovirology is the concept of open access. In the 21^st century, we have the opportunity and responsibility to embrace the distribution of scientific knowledge using an access model that transcends professional classifications, national boundaries, individual wealth, and accidents of birth. Open access may not be a big deal for European and American scientists or for developed economies; however, I guarantee you for that scientist in Cuba, for the other in Libya, for the graduate student in China, it is a huge matter of import."

Kuan-Teh Jeang
Molecular Virology Section, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland USA

A short biography
Dr. Jeang was born in Taiwan. At age 5, he moved with his family to Libya where he stayed until age 12, when he arrived in the United States. At age 16, he matriculated university studies at MIT (Boston, USA); two years later, at age 18, he started his MD and PhD training at the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine (Baltimore, USA); graduating with both degrees in 1984. Since 1985, Dr Jeang has been at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, USA). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, which have been cited around 8,500 times. His research interests focus on the gene regulation of HIV and how HTLV-1 causes leukemia. In 2004, he and several colleagues founded Retrovirology.