David Ho
Scientific Director & CEO, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
David Ho is the Scientific Director & CEO of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. Ho’s laboratory has focused on the pathogenesis of HIV infection. Most recently, his group has made substantial strides in the development of vaccines for HIV, as well as in the development of innovative prevention strategies. Ho also serves as head of the China AIDS Initiative, an alliance of Chinese and international organizations dedicated to helping China accelerate its response to HIV/AIDS.
Time’s Man of the Year in 1996 discusses how his background in physics helped him develop the Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) that revolutionized AIDS treatment in the mid-1990s.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic will still be with us in 40 years. But we will know a lot more about the virus than we do today—and therapy will be much more […]
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The pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher used high school math in creating a drug “cocktail” to combat the worldwide epidemic.
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