Barré-Sinoussi, Franƈoise
- Barré-Sinoussi, Franƈoise
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▪ French virologist
born July 30, 1947, Paris, France
French virologist who was a corecipient, with Luc Montagnier (
Montagnier, Luc) and Harald zur Hausen (
zur Hausen, Harald), of the 2008
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She and Montagnier shared half the prize for their work in identifying the human immunodeficiency virus (
HIV), the cause of autoimmune deficiency syndrome (
AIDS).
Barré-Sinoussi earned a Ph.D. (1975) at the Pasteur Institute in Garches, France, and did postdoctoral work in the United States at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. In 1975 she joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and in 1996 she became head of the Retrovirus Biology Unit (later called Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit) there.
When Montagnier led efforts at the Pasteur Institute in 1982 to determine a cause for AIDS, Barré-Sinoussi was a member of his team. Through dissection of an infected patient's lymph node, they determined that AIDS was caused by a retrovirus, which came to be known as HIV. Their work led to the development of new antiviral drugs and diagnostic methods.
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