He helped cure the ‘London patient’ of HIV. Then he turned to Covid.

(Visionaries | Science)

Ravindra Gupta had studied drug-resistant HIV for more than a decade when he first encountered Adam Castillejo, who would become known as the “London patient,” the second person in the world to be cured of HIV. Gupta, who goes by Ravi, was a professor at University College London straddling the clinical and academic worlds when Castillejo presented as both HIV-positive and with relapsed lymphoma after a previous…