Peter Staley was diagnosed with AIDS-related complex in 1985 while working as a bond trader on Wall Street, and became a member of ACT-UP in 1987, heading the group’s fundraising efforts.  He also organized and led many of ACT-UP’s historic protest actions and policy initiatives, including the campaign to lower the price of AZT, at the time the most expensive pharmaceutical ever and the only drug available to treat the new disease.  In 1992 he founded the Treatment Action Group (TAG), which quickly became an indispensable voice in AIDS treatment research advocacy.  Mr. Staley served for many years as an amfAR Board member, and was appointed to President Clinton’s National Task Force on AIDS Drug Development in 1994.  He launched AIDSmeds.com, a website providing lifesaving treatment information to people living with HIV, in 2000.