Julio Montaner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Julio Montaner

HIV/AIDS researcher

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1956

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: physician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Julio S.
G.
Montaner, (born April 13, 1956) is an Argentinean-Canadian physician, professor and researcher.
He is the director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the chair in AIDS Research and head of the Division of AIDS in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and the past-president of the International AIDS Society.
He is also the director of the John Ruedy Immunodeficiency Clinic, and the Physician Program Director for HIV/AIDS PHC.
He is known for his work on HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy), a role in the discovery of triple therapy as an effective treatment for HIV in the late 1990s, and a role in advocating the "Treatment as Prevention" Strategy in the mid-2000s, led by Myron Cohen of the HPTN 052 trial..