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David Da-i Ho (何大一, pinyin: Hé Dàyī) (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients.

Born in Taichung, Taiwan to Paul (an engineer and soldier) and Sonia Ho, David Ho immigrated at the age of twelve to the United States, to unite with his father, who had already been in the USA for nine years at the time. He grew up in Los Angeles and received his BS degree summa cum laude from the California Institute of Technology (1974) and his MD from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (1978). Subsequently, he did his clinical training in internal medicine and infectious diseases at UCLA School of Medicine (1978-1982) and Massachusetts General Hospital (1982-1985), respectively. He was a resident in internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in 1981 when he came into contact with some of the first reported cases of what was later identified as AIDS.