HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?
- 6pm, followed by reception – 7:45pm on 29 November 2011
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The Royal Society, London
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
LondonLondonSW1Y 5AGUK
The 2010 Claude Bernard International Lecture
Presented by Prof Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Head of the Unit “Regulation of Retroviral Infections” at the Institut Pasteur, Paris.
Prof Barré-Sinoussi started her research on HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, demonstrating that the disease was caused by a retrovirus. The results of the successful isolation, amplification, and preliminary characterisation of the virus were published in Science in May 1983. This marked the beginning of a distinguished research career at the Institut Pasteur, culminating in receiving the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008, which she shared with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen.
The slides for this lecture are available to download here: HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?