Jay A. Levy is Professor, Department of Medicine; Research Associate, Cancer Research Institute; and Director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research, University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from Wesleyan University, he spent a year in Paris on Fulbright and French government fellowships. He received his M.D. from Columbia University where he also was an International Fellow in the SIPA program. In 1983, Dr. Levy independently discovered HIV and during the past 30 years, he has dedicated his efforts to biologic, immunologic, and molecular studies of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Levy has published over 600 articles in virology, immunology and infectious diseases. He is author or editor of 14 books on virology and immunology and is Editor-in-Chief of the highly cited journal, AIDS. Among his publications are his acclaimed four-volume series, The Retroviridae and his seminal, sole-authored book, HIV and the Pathogenesis of AIDS, now in its third edition and translated into several languages. Dr. Levy is involved in studies toward an immune-based therapy, a vaccine, and a cure for HIV infection.