Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, often abbreviated as ADARC, is a medical research institution dedicated to finding a cure for

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. It is headed by scientist Dr. David Ho, who was the 1996 Time magazine Person of the Year, and is located in

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. Opening in 1991, the center was the brainchild of the Aaron Diamond Foundation headed by his widow

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, the

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, the Public Health Research Institute and

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. It became affiliated with Rockefeller University in 1996, and became part of Columbia University's medical school,

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, in 2019. ADARC has already made several notable achievements in the fight against the epidemic. In April 2017, According to the reports, TaiMed inked licensing agreement with the ADARC for bispecific

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technology.

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External links

Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center Official site
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