Larner Professor of Medicine Tim Lahey, M.D., M.M.Sc., was quoted in a story in the Lund Report on a $8.4 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to a group of Oregon scientists for their work developing a cure for HIV.
Lahey, a physician who studies HIV at the University of Vermont and isn’t affiliated with the research effort, says the award is an incredibly rare honor and a validation of a scientists’ career.
Other scientists have explored stem cell transplants as a possible HIV cure, but none have yet found a way to make it effective and safe.
“We have to hope that they’re the ones that find the holy grail,” Lahey said.