Editing David Ho

{{Short description|Asian-American physician and scientist}}
{{About|the Asian-American scientist and HIV/AIDS researcher}}
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| awards            = [[Ernst Jung Prize]] (1991)<br />[[Bristol-Myers Squibb Award]] (1996)<br />[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1997)<br />[[ Presidential Citizens Medal]] (2001)
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| education         = [[California Institute of Technology]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Doctor of Medicine|MD]])
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'''David Da-i Ho''' ({{zh|t=何大一}}; [[pinyin]]: ''Hé Dà-yī''; born November 3, 1952) is a [[Taiwanese American|Taiwanese-American]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=9 medical pioneers to celebrate for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month|url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/9-medical-pioneers-to-celebrate-for-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513183957/https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/9-medical-pioneers-to-celebrate-for-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month.html|work= [[Becker's Hospital Review]]|date=May 13, 2021 |quote=David Ho, MD, for pioneering treatment of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Ho is a Taiwanese American physician who was named [[Time (magazine)|Time]]'s [[Time Man of the Year|Man of the Year]] in 1996|access-date=2023-10-21|archive-date=2021-05-13|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title= Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Pioneers in Medicine & Science|url=https://myana.org/asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-pioneers-medicine-science|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610214542/https://myana.org/asian-american-native-hawaiian-and-pacific-islander-pioneers-medicine-science|archive-date=2023-06-10|work= [[American Neurological Association]] (ANA) |access-date=2023-10-20| url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.fapa.org/fapanews/fapanews52000.html Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) noted, "Without the contributions of Taiwanese Americans, we would lack the important AIDS research of Dr. David Ho.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908103132/http://www.fapa.org/fapanews/fapanews52000.html|date=September 8, 2008}}, Formosan Association for Public Affairs, MAY 2000</ref><ref>[http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/09/04/2003512434 Taiwanese-American HIV/AIDS academic joins team], The Taipei Times, September 4, 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=56332&ctNode=5 U.S. Public TV Stations to Broadcast Taiwan Travel Features] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203838/http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=56332&ctNode=5|date=March 3, 2016}} ,  Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan), December 27, 2006</ref> [[HIV/AIDS research|AIDS researcher]], physician, and [[Virology|virologist]] who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and [[HAART|treatment of HIV infection]].<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Park|first=Alice|date=January 25, 2010|title=Scientist David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953703-1,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604065341/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1953703-1,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2011|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=January 24, 2010}}</ref> He was a pioneer of [[Combination therapy|combination]] anti-retroviral therapy instead of [[monotherapy|single therapy]],<ref>(''N. Engl. J. Med.'' 1995; ''Science'' 1996)</ref><ref name="NEJM19950817"/> which turned [[HIV]] from an absolute [[terminal disease]] into a [[chronic disease]].<ref>{{Cite journal| title = HIV as a chronic disease| journal = [[Clinical Medicine (journal)|Clinical Medicine]]| volume = 9| issue = 2| pages = 125–128| date= 2009-04-01| doi = 10.7861/clinmedicine.9-2-125| pmid = 19435115| pmc=4952661| last1=Mahungu| first1=Tabitha| last2=Rodger| first2=Alison| last3=Johnson | first3=Margaret| access-date=2023-01-31| url=https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/9/2/125| url-access= | url-status=live| archive-date=2020-07-23| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200723073533/https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/9/2/125}}</ref>

David Ho was born in Taiwan in 1952 and immigrated to the United States in 1965,<ref name="onRACE"/> where he was educated at the [[California Institute of Technology]] and [[Harvard Medical School]] (through the [[Harvard–MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology]]) before getting his clinical training at [[UCLA School of Medicine]] and [[Massachusetts General Hospital]].

He is the founding scientific director of the [[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]]<ref name="ADARC">{{Cite web | title=About Us - Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) | url=https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/about-us | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608224604/https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/about-us | website=[[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]] | date=September 17, 2020 | access-date=2023-10-27 | archive-date=2023-06-08 | url-status=live}}</ref> and the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at [[Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons]],<ref name="ADARCLegacy">{{Cite web | title=Our Legacy - Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) | url=https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/about-us/our-legacy | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608223916/https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/about-us/our-legacy | website=[[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]] | date=September 17, 2020 | quote=...joined Columbia University Irving Medical Center on January 1, 2020. Dr. David Ho remains as the Center’s Director and has been named the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. | access-date=2023-10-27 | archive-date=2023-06-08 | url-status=live}}</ref> both housed at [[Columbia University Irving Medical Center]].<ref name="ADARCLegacy"/><ref>{{Cite web | title=Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons - Columbia University Irving Medical Center | url=https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/education/vagelos-college-physicians-and-surgeons | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607165802/https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/education/vagelos-college-physicians-and-surgeons | website=[[Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons]] | date=December 29, 2020 | access-date=2023-10-27 | archive-date=2023-06-07 | url-status=live}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
David Ho was born in [[Taichung]], [[Taiwan]], to Paul ({{zh|labels=no|c=何步基|p=Hé Bùjī}}), an engineer, and Sonia Ho (née Jiang) ({{zh|labels=no|t=江雙如|p=Jiāng Shuāngrú}}). He attended Taichung Municipal Guang-Fu Elementary School until sixth grade before [[Immigration to the United States|immigrating]] to the [[United States]] with his mother and younger brother to unite with his father, who had already been in the US since 1957.<ref name="onRACE">{{cite web |title=David Ho, The Chinese American Hero Who Pioneered Drug Therapies For HIV/AIDS |url=https://www.usaonrace.com/setting-it-straight/1838/david-ho-the-chinese-american-hero-who-pioneered-drug-therapies-for-hivaids.html |website=USAonRACE}}</ref> 

Ho grew up in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and graduated from [[John Marshall High School (Los Angeles)|John Marshall High School]]. He received his [[Bachelor of Science]] in [[biology]] with highest honors from the [[California Institute of Technology]] (1974).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://caltechcampuspubs.library.caltech.edu/2527/1/June_14%2C_1974.pdf |title=Caltech Commencement Program |date=June 14, 1974 |publisher=Caltech Campus Publications |access-date=March 29, 2013}}</ref> In 1978, Ho earned a [[Doctor of Medicine]] (M.D.) from [[Harvard Medical School]].

==Career==
Ho has been engaged in [[HIV/AIDS research]] since the beginning of the [[AIDS pandemic|pandemic]], initially focusing on clinical [[virology]] and select topics in HIV pathogenesis, including [[HIV drug resistance]]. Before [[International AIDS Conference 1996|1996]], [[AZT#Viral resistance|AZT]]<ref name="NEJM19950817">{{Cite journal| title = '''''Time to Hit HIV, Early and Hard'''''| journal = [[New England Journal of Medicine]]| volume = 333| issue = 7| pages = 450–451| date= August 17, 1995| doi = 10.1056/NEJM199508173330710| pmid = 7616996| last1 = Ho| first1 = David| access-date=January 29, 2023| url=https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199508173330710| url-access= limited| url-status=live| quote=...&nbsp;''zidovudine'' was shown in 1990 to slow the clinical progression to AIDS in infected but asymptomatic subjects. However, a follow-up of those subjects found no evidence of longer survival with the use of ''zidovudine''...| archive-date=September 1, 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150901055811/http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199508173330710}}</ref> and other early 1990s [[antiretroviral]] medication were prescribed in [[monotherapy|single therapy]], which still did not prevent [[Signs and symptoms of HIV/AIDS#AIDS|progression to fatal full-blown AIDS]].<ref name="NEJM19950817"/><ref>{{bulleted list| {{Cite web| url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| title = Interviews - David Ho - The Age Of Aids - Frontline| url-status=live| series= [[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]]| publisher=[[PBS]]| quote=...&nbsp;it's inevitable for HIV to develop drug resistance if you give it one drug at a time...| date=May 30, 2006| access-date=January 29, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307045642/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| archive-date=March 7, 2007}}| {{cite episode |title=The Age of AIDS, Part II | series=[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]] |network=[[PBS]] |date=2006-05-31| access-date=2023-01-31| season= 24 (2006)| number=11| url=https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-age-aids-part-ii/ |time=0:18:42| quote=...&nbsp; We came to the conclusion that it's inevitable for HIV to develop drug resistance if you give it one drug at a time...&nbsp;}}}}</ref> In the mid-1990s, his research team conducted a series of elegant human studies to elucidate the dynamics of HIV replication in vivo.<ref name=":0" /> This knowledge, in turn, formed the foundation for their pioneering effort to treat HIV "early and [[Combination therapy|hard]]"<ref name="NEJM19950817"/> and in demonstrating for the first time the durable control of HIV replication in patients receiving [[combination antiretroviral therapy]],<ref>(''Nature'' 1997)</ref><ref>{{Bulleted list| {{Cite web| url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| title = Interviews - David Ho - The Age Of Aids - Frontline| url-status=live| series= [[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]]| publisher=[[PBS]]| quote=...&nbsp;if you start to combine the drugs and try to force the virus into a corner using multiple drugs, it is exceedingly difficult or statistically improbable for HIV to become resistant to all the drugs simultaneously.| date=May 30, 2006| access-date=January 29, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307045642/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| archive-date=March 7, 2007}}| {{cite episode |title=The Age of AIDS, Part II | series=[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]] |network=[[PBS]] |date=2006-05-31| access-date=2023-01-31| season= 24 (2006)| number=11| url=https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-age-aids-part-ii/ |time=0:18:54| quote=...&nbsp;However, if you start to combine the drugs and try to force the virus into a corner using multiple drugs, it is exceedingly difficult...for HIV to become resistant to all the drugs simultaneously.&nbsp;}}}}</ref> which had subsequently developed by scientists at [[NIAID]] and [[Merck & Co.|Merck]].<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Treatment with Indinavir, Zidovudine, and Lamivudine in Adults with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Prior Antiretroviral Therapy|journal = New England Journal of Medicine|volume = 337|issue = 11|pages = 734–739|year = 1997|doi = 10.1056/NEJM199709113371102|pmid = 9287228|last1 = Gulick|first1 = Roy M.|last2 = Mellors|first2 = John W.|last3 = Havlir|first3 = Diane|last4 = Eron|first4 = Joseph J.|last5 = Gonzalez|first5 = Charles|last6 = McMahon|first6 = Deborah|last7 = Richman|first7 = Douglas D.|last8 = Valentine|first8 = Fred T.|last9 = Jonas|first9 = Leslie|last10 = Meibohm|first10 = Anne|last11 = Emini|first11 = Emilio A.|last12 = Chodakewitz|first12 = Jeffrey A.|last13 = Deutsch|first13 = Paul|last14 = Holder|first14 = Daniel|last15 = Schleif|first15 = William A.|last16 = Condra|first16 = Jon H.|doi-access = free}}</ref> He and his [[ADARC]] team presented the remarkable results from using combination antiretroviral therapy at [[International AIDS Conference 1996]].<ref>{{cite episode |title=The Age of AIDS, Part II | series=[[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]] |network=[[PBS]] |date=2006-05-31| access-date=2023-01-31| season= 24 (2006)| number=11| url=https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-age-aids-part-ii/ |time=0:21:50| quote=International AIDS Conference 1996 in  Vancouver showing combination therapy results}}</ref> This was the turning point in the epidemic that an automatic death sentence was transformed into a [[Chronic disease|manageable disease]].<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| title = Interviews - David Ho - The Age Of Aids - Frontline| url-status=live| series= [[Frontline (American TV program)|Frontline]]| publisher=[[PBS]]| quote=...&nbsp;response with combination therapy was rather dramatic...we see some deathly ill patients totally recover after two to three weeks of good therapy...people got out of their deathbed after a few weeks of therapy.| date=May 30, 2006| access-date=January 29, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307045642/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/ho.html| archive-date=March 7, 2007}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

Ho has published more than 500 research papers as of February 2020.<ref>(''Nature'' 1995; ''Science'' 1996)</ref>

Ho is a member of the [[Committee of 100 (United States)|Committee of 100]], a [[Chinese American]] leadership organization, in addition to several scientific groups.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.committee100.org/member/david-d-ho/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702122636/https://www.committee100.org/member/david-d-ho|url-status=live|title=MEMBERS {{!}} Committee of 100|publisher=[[Committee of 100 (United States)|Committee of 100]]|website=www.committee100.org|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=2022-07-02}}</ref>

Ho led a team, funded by the [[Jack Ma]] [[Jack Ma Foundation|Foundation]], to look for a vaccine for the [[COVID-19]] virus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/health/covid-19-are-we-close-to-a-novel-coronavirus-vaccine/2312199/|title = COVID-19: Are We Close to a Novel Coronavirus Vaccine?| date=March 4, 2020 }}</ref> 

==Honors and titles==
Ho was [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine's]] 1996 [[Time Magazine Person of the Year|Man of the Year]]. ''Time'' later recalled the selection surprising both Ho and readers.<ref name="Time">Time, ''Person of the Year: 75th Anniversary Celebration'', Special Collector's Edition, Time Books, 2002, p. 108.</ref><ref name="TIME1996">{{cite web|title= 1996 Man of the Year |series= [[Time Magazine Person of the Year]] |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]]|url=http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/archive/1996.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010123235600/http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/archive/1996.html|archive-date=2001-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine| title=Dr. David Ho: The Disease Detective| date=1996-12-30 | url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,985762-7,00.html| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212141913/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,985762-7,00.html| archive-date=2022-12-12| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| last= Gorman| first=Christine | access-date=2023-02-01}}</ref> The magazine acknowledged in 1996 that "Ho is not, to be sure, a household name. But some people make headlines while others make history."<ref name="Time"/> As of 2024, Ho is the last person to be selected as Person of the Year in a U.S. presidential election year without winning that year's U.S. presidential election. In 1998, he received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/all-honorees/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221003453/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/all-honorees/|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2022-12-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= David Ho Interview -- Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hoa0int-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429191401/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hoa0int-1|archive-date=2007-04-29|url-status=dead}}</ref> Ho was even briefly mentioned when [[Alexander Fleming]] was considered for Person of the Century in 1999, since Fleming could be portrayed as representative of other disease-fighting scientists including Ho,<ref>''Time Millennium'', Collector's Edition, Time Inc. Specials, p. 21.</ref> but the title ultimately went to [[Albert Einstein]].

Ho was the chosen commencement speaker at [[Caltech]],<ref>[https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/science-candle-hope-be-theme-david-hos-caltech-commencement-address-189 “Science as a Candle of Hope"] David Ho Caltech Commencement Address in 1997</ref> [[MIT]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.mit.edu/1998/ho|title=AIDS researcher David Ho to be MIT commencement speaker|website=MIT News|date=February 16, 1998 }}</ref> and [[Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health]] in 2000.

Ho has received numerous honors and awards for his scientific accomplishments. On January 8, 2001, he was presented with the [[Presidential Citizens Medal]] by President [[William Clinton|Clinton]].<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Mon_Jan_8_141714_2001.html| title = The White House - ''President Clinton Awards the Presidential Citizens Medals Monday, January 8, 2001''| url-status=dead| series= [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Clinton]] [[White House]]| publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]| date=2001-01-08| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801215612/http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Mon_Jan_8_141714_2001.html| archive-date=2012-08-01}}</ref><ref>Mo, Steven (June 13, 2011). [http://www.asianscientist.com/features/aids-research-pioneer-david-ho-da-i/ "AIDS Research Pioneer, David Hoe, Talks To Asian Scientist Magazine"]. Asian Scientist.</ref>

On December 6, 2006, [[Governor of California|California governor]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and First Lady [[Maria Shriver]] inducted Ho into the [[California Hall of Fame]] located at [[The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.californiamuseum.org/2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804005142/http://www.californiamuseum.org/2006|title=California Hall of Fame - California Museum|website=www.californiamuseum.org|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2012-08-04}}</ref>

Ho was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by [[California Institute of Technology]] in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/daa|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502144536/https://www.alumni.caltech.edu/daa/|title=Distinguished Alumni|website=Caltech Alumni Association|archive-date=2020-05-02}}</ref> Ho received the Portrait of a Nation Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://npg.si.edu/blog/portrait-nation-prize-recipient-dr-david-ho| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119040509/https://npg.si.edu/blog/portrait-nation-prize-recipient-dr-david-ho|title=2017 Portrait of a Nation Prize Recipient: Dr. David Ho| website=[[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] [[Smithsonian Institution]]| date=November 14, 2017|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2017-11-19}}</ref>

Other accolades include the [[Ernst Jung Prize]] in Medicine,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jung-stiftung.de/en/the-awards/ernst-jung-prize-for-medicine/laureates-1976-to-2021/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516184837/https://jung-stiftung.de/en/the-awards/ernst-jung-prize-for-medicine/laureates-1976-to-2021/|title=Ernst Jung Prize|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2022-05-16}}</ref> [[Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology|Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science & Technology]], the Squibb Award,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/david-d-ho-md|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107082111/https://www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/david-d-ho-md|title=David D. Ho, MD - Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC)|website=www.adarc.cuimc.columbia.edu|date=September 11, 2020 |publisher=[[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]]|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2023-01-07}}</ref> the Architect of Peace<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.architectsofpeace.org/architects-of-peace/david-ho|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418034913/http://www.architectsofpeace.org/architects-of-peace/david-ho|title=:: David Ho &#124; Architect of Peace|website=www.architectsofpeace.org|archive-date=2010-04-18}}</ref> and the Hoechst Marion Roussel Award.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://vet.osu.edu/retrovirus-research/2014-distinguished-research-career-award| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907012006/https://vet.osu.edu/retrovirus-research/2014-distinguished-research-career-award| title=2014 Distinguished Research Career Award &#124; College of Veterinary Medicine - Center for Retrovirus Research | website=vet.osu.edu| access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2015-09-07}}</ref>

Ho has been elected as a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], [[Academia Sinica]] ([[Taiwan]]), and the U.S. [[National Academy of Medicine]] (formerly Institute of Medicine).<ref name=":0" /> He is currently a member of the board of trustees of the [[California Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{cite web| title= Board of Trustees - Caltech Academic Catalog| publisher=[[California Institute of Technology]]| url=https://catalog.caltech.edu/current/trustees-administration-faculty/board-of-trustees/| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907013112/https://catalog.caltech.edu/current/trustees-administration-faculty/board-of-trustees/| archive-date=2022-09-07| access-date=2023-01-31}}</ref> He was a member of the Board of Overseers of [[Harvard University]] and a board member of the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] Corporation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corporation.mit.edu/membership/all-members/former-corporation-members|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221106035356/http://corporation.mit.edu/membership/all-members/former-corporation-members|title=Former Corporation Members - The MIT Corporation|website=corporation.mit.edu|access-date=2023-01-31|archive-date=2022-11-06}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

He is also a member of the [[Chinese Academy of Engineering]].<ref name=":0" /> 

Ho was recognized by the Kingdom of Thailand with the [[Prince Mahidol Award]] in Medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.princemahidolaward.org/the-announcement-for-the-prince-mahidol-award-2013/|title=The Announcement for the Prince Mahidol Award 2013|date=November 21, 2013|website=Prince Mahidol Award Foundation}}</ref>

Ho was awarded Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence - Immunity in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hmaward.org.ae/profile.php?id=2571|title=Hamdan Award for Medical Research Excellence - Immunity to David Ho|access-date=2023-10-22}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Ho's family's ancestral home is [[Xinyu]], [[Jiangxi|Jiangxi Province]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.adarc.org/files/David%20Ho%20Credits%20His%20Achievements%20to%20Late%20Father.html|url-status=dead|title=David Ho Credits His Achievements to Late Father｜Culture｜News｜WantChinaTimes.com|website=www.adarc.org|access-date=February 25, 2020|archive-date=August 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801010812/http://www.adarc.org/files/David%20Ho%20Credits%20His%20Achievements%20to%20Late%20Father.html}}</ref> He is married to Tera Wong, with whom he has four children: Kathryn, Jonathan, Jaclyn, and Jerren.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-11 |title=David D. Ho, MD |url=https://www.infectiousdiseases.cuimc.columbia.edu/profile/david-d-ho-md |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Infectious Diseases |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Treatment of HIV/AIDS]]
* [[International AIDS Conference 1996]]
* [[Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]]
* [[Chinese people in New York City|Chinese Americans in New York City]]
* [[Taiwanese people in New York City|Taiwanese Americans in New York City]]

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20010123235600/http://www.time.com/time/poy2000/archive/1996.html 1996 Man of the Year]
*[http://www.adarc.org/ Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051202004044/http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/abstract.php?id=63 Rockefeller Heads of Laboratories]
*[https://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13915 Ubben Lecture at DePauw University; April 16, 1997]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429191401/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/hoa0int-1 David Ho Interview -- Academy of Achievement]
*{{C-SPAN|27532}}

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