David Ho
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David Ta-i Ho (何大一, pinyin: Hé Dàyī) (born 3 November 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for his advocacy of HAART and the use of protease inhibitors in patients diagnosed HIV positive.
Born in Taichung, Taiwan to Paul and Sonia Ho, David Ho immigrated at twelve to unite with his father, who had been in the United States since nine years earlier. He grew up in Los Angeles and received his BS degree summa cum laude from the California Institute of Technology (1974) and his Doctor of Medicine from the Harvard Medical School (1978). Subsequently, he did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCLA School of Medicine (1978-1982) and Massachusetts General Hospital (1982-1985), respectively. He was a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1981 when he came into contact with some of the first reported cases of what was later termed "AIDS".
Ho was one of the first scientists to propose that AIDS was caused by a virus. He is perhaps most recognized for a paper he co-authored in 1995 which attempted to elucidate a "dynamic" nature of HIV replication in infected persons. This paper was partially responsible for the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy, including the use of protease inhibitors. Powerful criticisms of this and an accompanying paper in Nature magazine have been given by Mark Craddock, Peter Duesberg and Harvey Bialy, and the Perth Group among others.
Ho's research team is now devoting considerable efforts toward developing a vaccine.
David Ho was the 1996 TIME's Man of the Year. Dr. Ho has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academia Sinica (Republic of China), and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy. He is currently professor and scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at the Rockefeller University in New York.
Documents and external links
- rockefeller.edu: Heads of Laboratories
- 1996 Man of the Year
- Science Fiction by Celia Farber
- Famouschinese.com article
- Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center
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