President’s Medal honors biomedical researchers who developed lifesaving HIV medications | Emory University

Summary: Three scientists from Emory University—Dennis Liotta, Raymond Schinazi, and Woo-Baeg Choi—are receiving the President’s Medal for their incredible work. Back in the 1990s, people told them a small school lab couldn't compete with giant drug companies to fight HIV. They proved everyone wrong!

Together, they created groundbreaking medicines that changed HIV from a deadly illness into a manageable condition. Thanks to their teamwork, patients went from taking a huge handful of pills to just one pill a day. Today, over 90% of Americans living with HIV have used their life-saving drugs.

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