Long-Term Survivors Key to Halting AIDS Pandemic
UCSF AIDS researcher and co-discoverer of HIV, Jay Levy, MD, pioneered a study of long-term AIDS survivors, or "elite controllers," people who are infected with HIV but never get sick. The outcome Levy wants to see from studying elite controllers is a vaccine that induces this type of response.
Levy is professor in the Department of Medicine, research associate at the Cancer Research Institute, and director of the Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research, all at UCSF.
Links:
"Long Term Survivors Key to Halting AIDS Pandemic"
HealthWatch, KPIX-TV (CBS 5), August 16, 2006
"UCSF Researcher Studying Population of Elite Controllers"
UCSF Today, August 18, 2006
