Illustration of HIV cells

Medicine’s Rafick-Pierre Sékaly to research gene-editing treatments for HIV

The man who smelled like rancid creamed corn to usher in a new scientific era

The Atlantic: Earlier this year, Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, the Richard J. Fasenmyer Professor of Immunopathogenesis, was awarded an $11 million grant to research gene-editing treatments for HIV. He discussed the passion of one patient who has pushed scientists to keep working on HIV.