President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is not the only Filipino to be included in TIME's 100 Most Influential list. Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a Filipino American immunologist from the University of Massachusetts and one-third of the team that cured an HIV-positive baby earlier this year, is also in it.

“We consider this a great achievement,” says Luzuriaga in an article on Inquirer.net. “We’re very honored and actually very humbled to be among the ranks of these individuals that have been chosen.”

However, the Filipino-American awardee, who has had over 20 years of experience dealing with mother-to-child HIV transmissions, is not one to rest on her laurels. “One of the things about the finding is that it points the way to new studies that we can do and we’d like to go on and continue to make progress again for pediatric HIV infection,” she was quoted as saying.

According to TIME, their breakthrough “gives us more ammunition in the fight against HIV and AIDS. It adds substance to our conviction—not yet proven but heading in the right direction—that we can prevent this disease from infecting newborn babies.”

TIME began the list in 1999 and has since continued searching for people who inspire the world. “We ask who’s being innovative, who is showing any path forward in business, who is really excelling in the arts, who is making a difference,” says Executive Editor Radhika Jones in their TIME 100 video. “The great thing about the list is it crosses all of these fields. It’s not just politicians, it’s not just financial tycoons, it’s everyone.”

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