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ADARC
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, often abbreviated as ADARC, is a United States medical research institution dedicated to finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. It is headed by scientist Dr. David Ho (scientist), David Ho, who was the 1996 Time magazine Person of the Year, and is located in New York City. Opening in 1991, the center was the brainchild of the Aaron Diamond Foundation headed by his widow Irene Diamond, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City Department of Health, the Public Health Research Institute and New York University School of Medicine. It became affiliated with Rockefeller University in 1996, and became part of Columbia University's medical school, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 2019. One is the introduction of combination therapy, combination combination antiretroviral therapy, antiretroviral therapy to combat HIV drug resistance and hence prevent Signs and symptoms of HIV/AIDS#AIDS, progression to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ho (scientist)
David Da-i Ho (; pinyin: ''Hé Dà-yī''; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American, Taiwanese-American HIV/AIDS research, AIDS researcher, physician, and Virology, virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and HAART, treatment of HIV infection. He was a pioneer of Combination therapy, combination anti-retroviral therapy instead of monotherapy, single therapy, which turned HIV from an absolute terminal disease into a chronic disease. Ho was born in Taiwan in 1952 and immigrated to the United States in 1965. After graduating from the California Institute of Technology, he earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Harvard Medical School before receiving his clinical training at the UCLA School of Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is the founding scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |