Dr. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi...

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Topics: Biology, HIV, HPV, Nobel Prize, Physiology, Medicine. Women in Science

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

Born: 30 July 1947, Paris, France

Affiliation at the time of the award: Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Prize motivation: "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"

Field: disease transmission, immunity, virology

Prize share: Harald zur Hausen and Luc Montagnier

awarded to Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer" (HPV), the other half jointly to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus" (HIV).

Nobel Lecture

HIV: a Discovery Opening the Road to Novel Scientific Achievements and Global Health Improvement

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Interview

"Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Facts". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 14 Mar 2015. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2008/barre-sinoussi-facts.html