Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
30 July 1947 – present
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist. Working in Luc Montagnier's laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, she was the first author of the 1983 paper reporting the retrovirus later identified as HIV. She shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for that discovery and went on to lead the Institut Pasteur's unit on the regulation of retroviral infections and to serve as president of the International AIDS Society.
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Life events
She studied natural sciences while beginning volunteer laboratory work at the Institut Pasteur.
Her doctoral research concerned murine retroviruses and reverse transcriptase.
The Science paper described a new retrovirus isolated from a patient with lymphadenopathy.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHer laboratory studied host defences and the mechanisms of HIV infection.
She shared the prize with Luc Montagnier for the discovery of HIV and with Harald zur Hausen.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe used the role to press for treatment access and continued HIV research funding.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe stepped back from running her laboratory while remaining active in HIV advocacy.