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Adam Castillejo

Adam Castillejo

Adam Castillejo (born 1979 or 1980), also known as "The London Patient", is the second person known to have been cured of HIV infection. Castillejo, who is British-Venezuelan and has mixed European ancestry, lives in London. He has previously worked as a chef and is now a motivational speaker. Diagnosed in 2003, his body became resistant to HIV infection after receiving a bone marrow transplant in 2016 to treat Hodgkin's lymphoma. The German donor carried the CCR5-Δ32 mutation which gives resistance from HIV infection. He was treated by Professor Ravindra Gupta.

See also Timothy Ray Brown Stephen Crohn Innate resistance to HIV Long term nonprogressor HIV/AIDS research

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