DR DAVID HO

Infectious disease expert

Dr David Ho hopes to find a scientific solution to COVID-19.

In 1996, the worldfamous HIV researcher became the first doctor chosen specifically for his work on a disease as Time’s Person of the Year, so it raised hopes to see him appear this March on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek, this time with the headline “The Cure Starts Here.”

Since February, Ho, who is the founder of the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center and a professor at the Columbia University School of Medicine in the US, has been in charge of a research and development project on coronavirus medicine and antibodies.

Beyond his past contributions as the main inventor of the Aids cocktail combination therapy, Ho has spent nearly two decades conducting in-depth research on coronavirus prevention, studying diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and now Covid-19.