Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV · France · Scientists · Born 1947 · age 79

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She found the virus behind AIDS. The 2008 Nobel Prize recognized the work that identified HIV and gave the world its clearest enemy to fight.

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2020Honorary doctorate from the University of GenevaAward2016Grand Cross of the Legion of HonourAwardUCL Prize Lecture in Clinical ScienceAward2011Honorary Doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur UniversityAward2008Medal of the City of ParisAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAward2006Women in Technology Hall of FameAward2002Officer of the National Order of MeritAward1993King Faisal International Prize in MedicineAward1947Born30 July 1947

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(translation) I think that at some point, we have to make way for the younger generation of researchers.
cite web | title = Françoise Barré-Sinoussi: « La recherche, c’est se donner pour les autres » | website= sidaction.org | date = 6 January, Own words
(translation) Researchers, no matter how old, must constantly question themselves. We never possess the whole truth.
cite web | title = Françoise Barré-Sinoussi: « La recherche, c’est se donner pour les autres » | website= sidaction.org | date = 6 January, Own words
For me the biggest risk would be to see a reemerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. That is really what I am extremely worried about.
(interview by Marcus Rose), Own words

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Awards

Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva2020

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour2016

UCL Prize Lecture in Clinical Science2016

Honorary Doctor of the Marie and Louis Pasteur University2011

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2008

Medal of the City of Paris2008

Women in Technology Hall of Fame2006

Officer of the National Order of Merit2002

King Faisal International Prize in Medicine1993

Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences

Honorary Doctorate from the McGill University

About this person

Born in Paris on 30 July 1947, Barré-Sinoussi trained as a virologist at the Institut Pasteur, where she would spend her career. Working under Luc Montagnier, she performed the fundamental research that identified the human immunodeficiency virus as the cause of AIDS - work that unraveled one of the late twentieth century's defining medical mysteries. The discovery earned her and Montagnier the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008. She rose to Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at Pasteur, retiring from active research in August 2015 and fully by 2017.

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France

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