World's only cured HIV patient will attend Philly conference

In the long, lethal history of the AIDS epidemic, only one human has ever conclusively beaten the disease: Timothy Brown.

A gay American man in Berlin, Brown was on the brink of death from leukemia and HIV in 2006 when he was given a novel treatment that rebooted his immune system, simultaneously curing him of both diseases.

Now 46, Brown has since been poked, prodded, and tested by experts around the world, and been declared healthy, albeit with lingering side effects from his care.

Since the New England Journal of Medicine published his case in 2009 as "the Berlin patient," the soft-spoken Brown has become something of a rock star in medical circles. Researchers have been trying to build on his example, searching his case for the road map to a broader cure.


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