David D. Ho

David D. Ho, M.D., is the founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. He is also the Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University.

Dr. Ho received his degrees from the California Institute of Technology (1974) and Harvard Medical School (1978). Subsequently, he did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA School of Medicine (1978-1982) and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (1982-1985), respectively.

Dr. Ho has been at the forefront of AIDS research for 36 years, publishing over 400 papers. Beginning in 1994, his work unveiled the dynamic nature of HIV replication in vivo and significantly contributed to the understanding of the disease. This knowledge led Dr. Ho to champion combination antiretroviral therapy, which resulted in dramatically improved control of HIV in patients.

Dr. Ho’s research team devotes considerable efforts to developing HIV vaccines, as well as antibody-based strategies and long-acting antiretroviral drugs to prevent the spread of the AIDS epidemic.