Anthony S. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

David Da-i Ho (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team.

Robert Gallo is currently the Director of the Institute of Human Virology and Division of Basic Science at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute. Prior to becoming director of the Institute in 1996, Dr. Gallo spent 30 years at the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he was head of its Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology.

Mark A. Wainberg, O.C., O.Q., Ph.D., (born April 21, 1945) is a Canadian scientist and AIDS researcher. He is the Director of the McGill University AIDS Centre and Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University. His most notable achievements is his initial identification of the antiviral capabilities of 3TC in 1989. He received a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1966 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1972.

Dr. Peter Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded the Vlerick Award. "From UNAIDS.org Bio:" <blockquote&gt; Executive Director of UNAIDS since its creation in 1995 and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, …

Luc Montagnier is a French virologist. In 1982 he was asked for assistance with establishing the possible underlying retroviral cause of a mysterious new syndrome, AIDS, by Dr. Willy Rozenbaum, a clinician at the "Hôpital Bichat" hospital in Paris. Rozenbaum's role was vital, as he had been openly speculating at scientific meetings that the cause of the disease might be a retrovirus, …

You are here: Clinical Trials at NIH > Health Care Professionals > Investigator Profiles > Robert Yarchoan , M.D. ... Dr. Yarchoan received his B.A. from Amherst College with a major in biophysics and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He trained in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota and immunology in the Metabolism Branch, NCI.

Douglas D. Richman, MD (born 15 February 1943, New York, NY) is a US medical virologist. Richman has worked primarily in the HIV field over the past twenty years, with major contributions in the areas of resistance and pathogenicity.

Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, USA) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1943, received his B.S. in biochemistry from Penn State University in 1948 and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University in 1952. In 1980 he shared half of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the team of Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger.

Joseph Sonnabend (born 1932 in South Africa) is a distinguished retired physician, scientist and AIDS researcher, notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of "safe sex" to prevent infection, and an early and unconventional "multifactorial" model of AIDS. During the 1980s and 1990s he treated many hundreds of HIV positive people.

Kevin De Cock , M.D., director of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization Video | Transcript | Podcast The World Health Organization's Dr. Kevin De Cock talks about the global efforts to stem the spread of HIV and improve access to antiretroviral therapy. Kevin De Cock Biography

Joep MA Lange (MD 1981, PhD 1987) is a clinical researcher from The Netherlands, specialising in HIV therapy. He is currently (2006) Professor of Medicine at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam and Senior Scientific Advisor to the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre, Amsterdam. He is also co-director of the HIV Netherlands Australia Research Collaboration (HIV-NAT), based in Thailand.

Hiroaki Mitsuya (born 1950) is a Japanese virologist famous for his role in discovery of the anti-HIV drug zidovudine (AZT) as well as other anti-AIDS drugs including didanosine (ddI) and zalcitabine (ddC). Mitsuya obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. at Kumamoto University in Japan. He joined the American National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1982, working initially on human T cell leukemia virus type 1, before switching his attention to HIV.

William "Bill" Darrow is a Professor of Public Health at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. Before accepting a position at FIU in August, 1994, Darrow served as Chief of the Behavioral and Prevention Research Branch, Division of STD/HIV Prevention, at the National Center for Prevention Services of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Darrow has published over 100 scientific papers in professional journals, books, …

Jaime Lagunez (born 1960 in Mexico City) is a scientist and activist. He developed research in therapies for cancer and AIDS and bioinformatics. During the promotion of the research of the field of Complex Systems, he became scientific advisor and director of Crionica, an organization dedicated to cryopreservation. He has directed the creation of computer programs for modeling intramolecular communication and microarray analysis.

Jaap Goudsmit (born in Amsterdam, 22 July 1951) <blockquote&gt; Professor of Poverty-related Communicable Diseases<br /> Chairman of the Board<br /> Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam<br /> Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br /> Aids Foundation East-West (AFEW)<br /> Chairman of the Board<br /> Moscow, …

Robert Emery Gould was a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College, and the chief of adolescent services at Bellevue Hospital. Gould was known as outspoken advocate on social issues, including psychiatric treatment of homeless people, violence on television (he was the president of lobbying group National Coalition on Television Violence), homosexuality and AIDS.

Fransje van der Waals (born in Heemstede, the Netherlands, 1950) is a medical physician and founder of the non-profit organisation Health[e]Foundation.

Mark Wainberg , Ph.D., director, McGill University AIDS Centre Video | Transcript | Podcast Dr. Mark Wainberg , professor of Medicine and of Microbiology at McGill University and IAS conference co-chair, speaks about HIV/AIDS in Canada and abroad.