Opendra "Bill" Narayan (November 28, 1936 – December 24, 2007)[1] was an HIV/AIDS researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
[1] Born in Guyana, Narayan earned his doctorate in veterinary medicine (DVM) from the University of Toronto in 1963.
Narayan trained as a postdoctoral researcher with renowned neurovirologist Richard T. Johnson at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine beginning in 1972.
[1] Narayan remained at Johns Hopkins as a faculty member and became director of the Retrovirus Biology Laboratory.
He moved to the University of Kansas, where he was named Distinguished Professor and director of the Marion Merrell Dow Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis.