[2] He is a lead investigator in studies on these topics[3] and is frequently interviewed in the scientific and popular press.
[5] His PhD was awarded by Rockefeller University in 1996 as part of a joint MD-PhD program with Cornell and Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
[7][8] Blankson completed residencies in infectious diseases and internal medicine at Johns Hopkins.
Elite suppressors are people who are infected with HIV-1 but naturally suppress the amount of virus in their blood to very low, almost undetectable levels without use of antiretroviral drugs.
Blankson and other investigators suggest the biological mechanisms of this rare phenomenon may hold the key to new treatments for HIV.