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HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?

 

  • 29 November 2011, 18:00 - 19:45
Add to Calendar 11/29/11 06:00 PM 11/29/11 07:45 PM United Kingdom (GMT) HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain? <p>HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?</p> The Royal Society, London, SW1Y 5AG
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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.