And so, as fate would have it, he became one of the first doctors to enter the field of AIDS research. His outstanding work earned him a Clinical Investigator Award from the National Institute of Health and got him appointed as director of the world's largest AIDS research institute in 1991.
就是這樣機緣巧合，他成為最早進入愛滋病研究領域的醫生之一；卓越的表現為他贏得西德容格醫學獎的榮譽，更使他從一九九一年起成為全球最大的愛滋病研究中心負責人。