# The Man Who Co-Discovered HIV 40 Years Ago Just Helped Find Two New Drug Targets - Date: 2026-04-21 - Category: Biotech & Life Sciences Jay Levy put samples of the AIDS epidemic virus in a freezer in 1983. Last month, they helped a Gladstone-UCSF team identify two previously unknown human proteins that block HIV, raising the first new drug targets from host-factor research in years. ---