Top Chinese Scientist in HIV Prevention and Control Honed His Skills in a Long Collaboration with UC

The San Francisco Chronicle profiles Yiming Shao, MD, PhD, director of virology and immunology at the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention in Beijing, and his long professional relationship with Jay Levy, MD. Levy is professor in the UCSF Department of Medicine, research associate at the Cancer Research Institute, and director of the Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research, University of California, San Francisco. Levy's lab was one of the first to isolate the causative agent of AIDS in 1981. As the Chronicle notes, Shao and Levy together run an exchange program for Chinese and American students. Chinese students are able to come to UCSF, while their American counterparts work in Shao's Beijing laboratory. Link: "Top researchers in China, U.S. are old pals. Beijing HIV specialist is longtime colleague of UCSF doctor among first to isolate virus," San Francisco Chronicle, July 30, 2006