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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a virology specialist with an H-index of 74 at Institut Pasteur (Member). Has been published in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine. Based in Unknown, Unknown, Global.
Biography
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Born in Paris, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of AIDS. In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. She mandatorily retired from active research on 31 August 2015, and fully retired by some time in 2017.
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Virologie (Montrouge)NatureCurr Opin HIV AIDSBull CancerLancet HIV
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