Professor's Model-Based Approach Helps Minimize Treatment Failure for HIV Patients
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Effective long-term treatment for patients living with HIV is complicated. Drug resistance is the leading cause of treatment failure and the development of new strains of the virus is common. Ryan Zurakowski, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, has developed a treatment method to reduce the risk of future failures in patients who have already experienced failure with their HIV treatment protocol.