Medicine’s Saba Valadkhan uncovers new HIV treatment targets

Meet the Case Western Reserve University scientists finding a potential cure to HIV

WOIO: Saba Valadkhan, assistant professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at the School of Medicine, shared how she and her colleagues uncovered how HIV reprograms infected cells to evade treatment, offering new therapeutic targets. Their discovery, published after decades of failed cures, could pave the way to ending the epidemic that has claimed 36 million lives worldwide.