Rik's Mind Podcast Ep. 85 Dr. Steven G. Deeks, MD: UCSF Medical researcher hunts cure for HIV/AIDS

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Today we are joined by Steven G. Deeks, MD. Dr. Deeks is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). 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.
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00:00 : Intro
00:36 : How Dr. Deeks got into HIV/AIDS Research
04:53 : What's the difference between HIV and AIDS? What are treatments?
10:23 : Wait, now there's Monkeypox?!?
14:13 : Infectious Origins of HIV and other diseases
18:23 : Gene Therapy and the Cure for HIV?
32:13 : The New Frontiers of Medicine and Covid Vaccines
43:38 : Help us make Rik get his Covid booster
47:03 : Current state of the Covid-19 Pandemic