Episode 85- Dr. Steven G. Deeks, MD: UCSF Medical researcher hunts cure for HIV/AIDS

Summary: Today we are joined by Steven G. Deeks, MD. Dr. Deeks is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is an expert on HIV and its impact on health during antiretroviral therapy. In early 2020 he leveraged his HIV cohort (SCOPE) to implement one of the first prospective studies aimed at defining the natural history, biology and treatment of Long COVID (LIINC cohort). Dr. Deeks has published over 700 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and invited reviews on these and related topics. He is the contact principal investigator (PI) of DARE (the Delaney AIDS Research Enterprise), an NIH-funded international collaboratory aimed at developing a cure for HIV infection and the PI for the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research. He is also the contact PI for one of the adult cohort sites within RECOVER, a national Long COVID research program. Dr. Deeks was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of America Physicians (AAP) and serves on the scientific advisory board for Science Translational Medicine. He maintains a primary care clinic for people living with HIV. Check out more about Dr. Deeks on his UCSF profile. Show Notes: 40 Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic | UC San Francisco US case of monkeypox reported in Massachusetts man | AP News PrEP | HIV Basics | HIV/AIDS | CDC The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis by Khalil G. Ghanem, M.D., Ph.D., Sanjay Ram, M.B., B.S., and Peter A. Rice, M.D. | The New England Journal of Medicine Rare monkeypox outbreak in U.K., Europe and U.S.: What is it and should we worry? | NPR CCR5: From Natural Resistance to a New Anti-HIV Strategy by Lucia Lopalco | National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine Veteran HIV/AIDS Researcher Helps Uncover a New Strategy Behind Potential Cure | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Experimental Gene Therapy Reverses Sickle Cell Disease for Years | Columbia University Medical Center Long Covid: 'I have to choose between walking and talking' | BBC News What Went Wrong With Russia’s Sputnik V Vaccine Rollout? | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace If you've had omicron before, are you safe from infection by the new variants? | NPR News ‘I Had Never Felt Worse’: Long Covid Sufferers Are Struggling With Exercise | The New York Times