David Ho

Dr. David Ho is a Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and the Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and Director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. He has been advancing therapies against viral diseases for nearly 40 years and has been engaged in AIDS research since the beginning of the epidemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Ho’s previous experience as an adviser to governments in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei during the 2002 – 2003 SARS epidemic led him to assemble a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, scientists and engineers at Columbia that has identified one of the broadest and most potent panels of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 to date.  Several of these antibodies are currently in clinical development for the treatment and prevention of COVID-19.  In addition to ongoing HIV research efforts, the Ho lab is continuing to investigate the pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms underlying SARS-CoV-2 infection in order to bring new solutions to the testing, treatment, and prevention of COVID-19.