Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.