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Timothy Ray Brown
  • FILE - This May 16, 2011 photo shows Timothy Ray Brown with his dog, Jack, on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Brown, who was known for years as the Berlin patient, had a transplant in Germany from a donor with natural resistance to the AIDS virus. It was thought to have cured Brown's leukemia and HIV. But in an interview Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, Brown said his cancer returned last year and has spread widely. His case has inspired scientists to seek more practical ways to try to cure the disease. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
  • FILE - This March 4, 2019, file photo shows Timothy Ray Brown, nicknamed the Berlin patient, posed in Seattle. A Brazilian man who was infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors are reporting. If confirmed, this would be the first time HIV has been eliminated without a bone marrow or stem cell transplant like the ones that have cured two other men, nicknamed the Berlin and London patients for where they were treated. (AP Photo/Manuel Valdes, File)
  • German Dr. Gero Hutter, left, Timothy Ray Brown, center, and Washington University Dr. David Curiel pose for a picture after Hutter discussed his treatment of Brown at a symposium on gene therapy cures at Washington University on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in St. Louis. Brown was diagnosed with HIV in 1995. In 2007 he had a blood gem cell transplant to treat leukemia using a donor with a rare gene mutation that provides natural resistance to HIV. Hutter says that resistance transferred to Brown and that enough time has passed to say without hesitation that he is cured of HIV. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)
  • German Dr. Gero Hutter, left, and Timothy Ray Brown pose for a picture after Hutter discussed his treatment of Brown at a symposium on gene therapy cures at Washington University on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in St. Louis. Brown was diagnosed with HIV in 1995. In 2007 he had a blood gem cell transplant to treat leukemia using a donor with a rare gene mutation that provides natural resistance to HIV. Hutter says that resistance transferred to Brown and that enough time has passed to say without hesitation that he is cured of HIV. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)
  • WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Timothy Ray Brown, known as the "Berlin Patient" and the only person to have been cured of AIDS, holds a press conference to announce the launch of the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation at the Westin City Center hotel on July 24, 2012 in Washington, DC. "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," Brown said of the treatment process that eventually cured him. Planned to launch during the International AIDS Conference being held in Washington, the foundation will work to focus efforts on finding a cure for HIV and AIDS. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images)
  • WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: Timothy Ray Brown, known as the "Berlin Patient" and the only person to have been cured of AIDS, leaves after a press conference announcing the launch of the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation at the Westin City Center hotel on July 24, 2012 in Washington, DC. "I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," Brown said of the treatment process that eventually cured him. Planned to launch during the International AIDS Conference being held in Washington, the foundation will work to focus efforts on finding a cure for HIV and AIDS. (Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images)
  • US Timothy Ray Brown (L), also known as “The Berlin Patient”, the first man to cure AIDS, next to german oncologist Gero Hütter (R) answers questions from journalists during the International Symposium HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID), on May 23, 2012 in Marseille, southern France. Timothy Ray Brown infected with HIV for more than a decade was given an experimental transplant of bone marrow with cells that contained an unusual natural variant of the CCR5 delta 32 cell-surface receptor, proved resistant to HIV, by a team around German oncologist Gero Hütter. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/GettyImages)
  • US Timothy Ray Brown (L), also known as “The Berlin Patient”, the first man to cure AIDS, with German oncologist Gero Hütter (R) takes part to the International Symposium HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID) conference, on May 23, 2012 in Marseille, southern France. Timothy Ray Brown infected with HIV for more than a decade was given an experimental transplant of bone marrow with cells that contained an unusual natural variant of the CCR5 delta 32 cell-surface receptor, proved resistant to HIV, by a team around German oncologist Gero Hütter. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/GettyImages)

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