The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008
Awarded on: 2008-10-06
"for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus"
Affiliations:
- Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur – Paris, France
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Born: 1947-07-30 in Paris, France
Gender: female
Field: French virologist and Nobel laureate (born 1947)
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.