{"id":44058,"date":"2020-07-12T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=44058"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:57:08","slug":"hiv-and-coronavirus-q-a-with-david-margolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/hiv-and-coronavirus-q-a-with-david-margolis\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV and Coronavirus: Q &amp; A with David Margolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41145\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 238px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/03\/david-margolis.jpg\" alt=\"David Margolis, MD\" width=\"228\" height=\"221\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"discreet\">David Margolis, MD<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/david-margolis-md\/\"><strong>David Margolis<\/strong><\/a>, MD, director of Carolina\u2019s HIV Cure Center, was interviewed by &#8220;The Well&#8221; on how HIV and SARS-CoV-2 differ, how far the science has evolved since HIV first emerged, and why he\u2019s hopeful about a COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>David Margolis knows viruses. He has spent his career working to eradicate the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS. The Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine, Margolis directs the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unchivcurecenter.org\/\">HIV Cure Center<\/a>\u00a0at Carolina, where he and his team pioneered research into one of the most difficult problems in HIV research \u2014 how to get the virus out of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unchivcurecenter.org\/research-projects\/\">latency<\/a>\u00a0so it can be eliminated and people can be truly cured.<\/p>\n<p>Just this past spring, Carolina\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/viivhealthcare.com\/en-us\/us-news\/us-articles\/2020\/viiv-healthcare-and-unc-chapel-hill-announce-five-year-renewal-o\/\">inked a second five-year, $20 million deal<\/a> with the pharmaceutical company ViiV Healthcare Limited \u2014 enabling the HIV Cure Center to continue its groundbreaking research. But then a new virus disrupted that work: the global COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/som-vital-signs\/2020\/july-9\/hiv-and-coronavirus-q-a-with-david-margolis?utm_source=vs-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=28\">UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Margolis, MD, director of Carolina\u2019s HIV Cure Center, was interviewed by &#8220;The Well&#8221; on how HIV and SARS-CoV-2 differ, how far the science has evolved since HIV first emerged, and why he\u2019s hopeful about a COVID-19 vaccine. David Margolis knows viruses. 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