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David Ho
 


 

1997  SCIENTIFIC HONOR AWARD LAUREATE

David Ho 何大一

Dr. Ho was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1952, graduated from California Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree and from Harvard Medical School with a M.D. degree. He completed his residency and later became a physician and research scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA in Los Angeles, and was a clinical and research fellow in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University. Currently, he is Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer at Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. He was elected as a member of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Special Achievement

Dr. Ho is a world-renowned medical scientist who in 1996 developed what is known as the "Cocktail Drug Therapy" to stop the HIV virus reproductive process, leading to the first internationally known successful treatment of AIDS patients. His find made long-awaited world news and made him the TIME magazine's man of the year in 1996. He is extremely talented in medical research and has written or co-authored more than 150 scientific articles and won many prizes and awards. His contribution to the AIDS treatment around the world is enormous. 

 
 
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