By: Devan Nambiar Canadian HIV cure research is bringing many of us closer to something we have dreamed about for decades: the possibility of a cure, and one found here in Canada. At CAHR 2026, Drs. Sharon Walmsley and Mario Ostrowski shared the case of the “Toronto Patient“. The patient, 62 years old, has been living with HIV for 27 years, taking antiretroviral therapy (ART). He developed acute myelogenous leukemia in 2021 and underwent a bone marrow transplant at UHN’s Princess Margaret Cancer Centre with donor stem cells that were selected because they contained a rare “delta-32” mutation in the