Reported in World Journal, the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, the largest private HIV/AIDS research center in the world, and Hong Kong University signed a cooperative program on AID research on July 5. David D. Ho, President and CEO of Aaron Diamond, research expenses will come from government and private donations and will be much less that $1,300 to 1,400 millions spent for research every year in the United States.
David D. Ho, M.D. is the founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He is also the Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Ho received his degrees from California Institute of Technology (1974) and 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. Dr. Ho has been actively engaged in AIDS research for 20 years, and has published over 250 papers on the subject. Among an impressive list of seminal contributions to the field, he is perhaps most recognized for the elucidation of the dynamic nature of HIV replication in infected persons. This basic understanding led Dr. Ho and his coworkers to champion combination antiretroviral therapy, including the use of protease inhibitors, that has resulted in dramatic reductions in AIDS-associated mortality in developed countries since 1996. Dr. Ho's research team is now devoting considerable efforts to develop a vaccine to halt the spread of the AIDS epidemic.