UCSF Researcher Studying Population of Elite Controllers

UCSF researcher Steven G. Deeks, MD, who has been studying a population of 60 elite controllers at San Francisco General Hospital, will work with Bruce Walker, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital on an international study of elite controllers. Elite controllers are people infected with HIV, but able to control the virus completely with their own immune systems. Deeks is associate clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Links: "Common Thread Sought Where HIV Is Undetectable: Infected 'Elite Controllers' May Hold Clues to Checking Virus with Immune System"
San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 2006 "Long Term Survivors Key to Halting AIDS Pandemic"
UCSF Today, August 18, 2006