Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is a French virologist, born July 30, 1947 in Paris, renowned as a co-discoverer of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS. Working at the Pasteur Institute with Luc Montagnier and Jean-Claude Chermann during the early 1980s AIDS epidemic, she isolated and cultured a retrovirus from a patient's lymph node biopsy, initially named LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associated Virus) and later identified as HIV-1. The discovery allowed diagnostic tests to be developed to help control the spread of the virus. She shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen. She went on to study immune responses to viral infection, mother-to-child HIV transmission and potential cure strategies, served as president of the International AIDS Society from 2012 to 2016, and received France's Legion of Honour among other awards.
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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi born 30 July 1947
In Group: HIV and Modern Infectious Disease Leaders, Introduction, sentence 2
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.
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