News Americas, NEW YORK, NY: Guyana-born HIV Expert, Dr. Deborah Persaud, has made the Time Magazine list of 2013 World List of ‘Top 100’ Influential People.
Persaud, a top researcher at Johns Hopkins Pediatric, was propelled into the spotlight in early March when she and colleagues Hanna Gay, M.D., of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D., of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, announced the first functional cure of HIV in an infant.
A virologist and an infectious disease specialist, Persaud is being recognized for her research and clinical work in pediatric HIV and AIDS.
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