Mike McCune, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, the Chief of the Division of Experimental Medicine, and - since 1987 - a care provider at the San Francisco General Hospital AIDS Clinic. He has devoted his career to understanding how HIV causes disease, with the specific intent to work with others to eradicate it.
Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D. is an adjunct Professor of Medicine in the Division of Experimental Medicine and the Walter G. Ross Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Tropical Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He has actively pursued immunovirology research for more than 25 years and leads a broad collaborative effort to find better ways to treat and to prevent HIV disease.