Scientists and officials of the HIV and AIDS era: Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier who isolated the virus and Anthony Fauci who led the American response and the federal infectious disease institute for decades. A person belongs here when the cited article describes work on HIV or the leadership of an infectious disease research program. It excludes earlier bacteriologists and vaccine developers.
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Gero Hütter (Wikipedia)
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transplanted bone marrow deficient in a key HIV receptor to a leukemia patient
Anthony Fauci (Wikipedia)
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Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022 and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President from 2021 to 2022.
Wikipedia: Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
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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.
Luc Montagnier (Wikipedia)
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Luc Montagnier (US: MON-tən-YAY, MOHN-tahn-YAY, French: [lyk mɔ̃taɲe]; 18 August 1932-8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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