ASH KOTAK The “Berlin Patient” Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV, has died at the age of 54 from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment. In 1995 Brown, an American, was diagnosed with HIV. Ten years later he was found to separately have acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Dr Gero Huetter, a blood cancer expert at the University of Berlin, believed that a bone marrow transplant was Brown’s best chance of beating the leukaemia. He also had a theoretical hunch that it may eradicate HIV too. It proved to be…