From Blackboard to Bedside: The Math Behind Life-Saving HIV Drugs

Find out how math, though often considered abstract, led to practical new treatments for HIV, changing it from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. Alan Perelson, a senior fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, shows how his work in mathematical modeling advanced our understanding of the HIV virus and how combination therapies could fight it. Perelson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; he has also held positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the École Normale Supérieure, and Oxford University.

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