PIONEERING AIDS RESEARCHER TO SPEAK AT
UH
Committee of 100 Member David Ho to Present New Findings on Vaccine
Research
David D. Ho, M.D., the man behind the famous AIDS cocktail, will
speak at the University of Houston, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept.
18.
In his lecture – “AIDS: From Vaccine Research to Public
Health” – Ho will speak about strides in research that
have come about due to the AIDS epidemic in China, where estimates
expect the total case load to reach 10 million infected with HIV
by 2010.
Ho will talk about a DNA vaccine that has already reached phase-I
human trial, as well as discuss two more vaccines under development.
These vaccines under development are based on a viral strain common
in China’s southwest region. The China AIDS Initiative, a
consortium of Chinese and American organizations that have come
together to combine forces in advocacy, public education, testing
and prevention work, and antiretroviral therapy, will also be discussed.
“It is most gratifying to have our work progress from the
discovery of new knowledge to the application of old knowledge,”
Ho said. “To go from basic research to clinical applications
to public health in the land of my heritage is especially rewarding.”
Ho is the founding scientific director and CEO of the Aaron Diamond
AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute,
the Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller University and a
Committee of 100 (C-100) member.
Brought to UH by C-100, a national organization composed of more
than 100 of the most influential Chinese Americans in the United
States, Ho’s lecture is also sponsored by UH’s Texas
Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, the Office
of Houston City Council Member Gordon Quan and Leadership Education
for Asian Pacifics (LEAP). The event
is being held in conjunction with a daylong Asian-American professional
development workshop co-hosted by LEAP and C-100 at the Houston
Community College administration building.
Holding six honorary doctorates, a member of the Institute of Medicine
of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Time magazine’s
1996 “Man of the Year” and a 2001 Presidential Medal
recipient, Ho has been actively engaged in AIDS research for 20
years. He continues to pursue therapeutic studies that attempt to
eradicate HIV, in addition to efforts to develop a vaccine to halt
the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
The lecture will be Web cast live at http://www.uh.edu/streaming/live.htm
and archived at http://www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom/webcast/index.html.
WHO: |
David D. Ho, M.D.
World-renowned AIDS Researcher |
WHAT: |
Committee of 100 / University of Houston Distinguished Lecture |
WHEN: |
5 to 5:30 p.m. (media availability)
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. (lecture); 8:30 to 9 p.m. (meet and greet)
Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004 |
WHERE: |
University of Houston Hilton Hotel
Waldorf Astoria Ballroom
4800 Calhoun Road, Entrance 1 - Free Parking in Lot 1A |
For more information about the C-100, visit http://www.committee100.org/.
For more information about UH visit the universitys Newsroom at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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