David Ho

David Da-i Ho (何大一 in pinyin: he2 da4 yi1) (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV infected patients.

Born in Taichung, Taiwan to Paul (a dentist) and Sonia Ho, David Ho immigrated at twelve to unite with his father, who had been in the USA since nine years earlier. David Ho was the 1996 Time’s Man of the Year. He is currently professor and scientific director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center at The Rockefeller University in New York.

See also: Chinese American

External links

• Time article
• Celia Farber ‘Science Fiction’ Gear March 2000 [Memory Hole] [Virus Myth] ‘Farber uses David Ho…as a case study of how to succeed in medicine without really trying.’