The State - News from June 30, 1986

City and medical officials are planning a $10-million AIDS research center at San Francisco General Hospital that they say would make the institution one of only three such major facilities in the world. The center would consist of seven to 10 scientists to study the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus, search for vaccines and seek a cure, according to the city Health Department. A total of $1.5 million for designing the facility was included last week in the final version of the state budget, and Gov. George Deukmejian reportedly has agreed to budget $8.5 million next year for construction. Dr. Merle A. Sande, chief of Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s AIDS task force and chief of medicine at the hospital, said the new center would be on a par with AIDS research facilities at the National Institutes of Health in Washington and the Pasteur Institute in Paris.