Phillip A. Furman is past president of the International Society for Antiviral Research and distinguished alumnus of the University of South Florida, whose revolutionary discoveries led to the development of antiviral drugs that are used to treat some of the most insidious viral diseases in the past 50 years including AIDS, Herpes, and Hepatitis C. [antiviral drugs; drug discovery; human immunodeficiency virus; AIDS; herpes; hepatitis C virus; HCV; University of South Florida; USF; Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories; Retrovir; AZT; Emtricitabine; anti-HIV drugs; Sofosbuvir]