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Bobo, who is currently director of UCLA's Center for Research on Race, Politics and Society, has been at that school since 1990. His areas of study include intergroup attitudes, political sociology, social psychology, race and ethnic relations...
...year was 1981, and Ho was chief medical resident at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Across town at UCLA, Gottlieb had identified a new syndrome that seemed to target gay men. Each of the cases was different, but all had one thing in common: whatever was making the men sick had singled out the T cells for destruction. Eventually the body's battered defenses couldn't shake off even the most innocuous microbial intruder. The men were dying from what doctors termed opportunistic infections, such as Pneumocystis pneumonia, which attacks the lungs, and toxoplasmosis, which often ravages the brain...
...taken a junior faculty position at UCLA and moved his family back to California. He contacted Dr. Robert Schooley of the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, and together they embarked on a clinical trial of soluble CD4 in two dozen patients, many of them in the later stages of AIDS. Unfortunately, Ho and Schooley wound up proving that soluble CD4 doesn't work. In the process, however, they discovered something very interesting--that there were tens of thousands of infectious viral particles in their patients' bodies, a lot more than anyone had expected...
...soluble CD4 showed Ho that there were significant gaps in science's understanding of the life cycle of HIV. He decided to revisit his earlier Boston work on the first stages of infection. By hanging out in hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, he and his team at UCLA identified four young homosexual men suffering from the flu-like symptoms of a primary HIV infection. Ho used a newly available tool of genetic engineering--the PCR test used most famously in the O.J. Simpson trial--to measure the amount of virus in the blood. Once again, he was astonished...
...GONDA (GOLDSCHMIED) The donor's full name is being kept private, but he gave $45 million to UCLA to create the Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center. This is the largest charitable gift from an individual in University of California history. The donor was described in a ucla statement as having long been committed to advancing medical progress against disease...