Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born July 30, 1947 in Paris ) is a French virologist who, together with Luc Montagnier, was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for their work on the HI virus .

Life

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is the daughter of Jeanine (née Fau) and Roger Sinoussi and graduated from Lycée Bergson. She received her doctorate in 1974 at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris and began her scientific career at INSERM in 1975 . Barré-Sinoussi began research on retroviruses at the Pasteur Institute in Paris . In 1983, in Luc Montagnier's group, she succeeded in identifying the HI virus as the cause of AIDS . Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier and colleagues had isolated the virus from the tissue of an AIDS patient and initially called it "lymphadenopathy-associated virus". The simultaneous publication of the discovery of the retrovirus by the group of Robert Charles Gallo led to years of litigation over the initial discovery.

In 1986 Barré-Sinoussi became head of laboratory, in 1992 head of department and in 1996 professor and head of the research group on the biology of retroviruses at the Pasteur Institute . Françoise Barré-Sinoussi has campaigned for the fight against AIDS in more than 200 publications and at more than 250 conferences. As a scientific advisor she took part in anti-AIDS programs of the World Health Organization and the UN program UNAIDS .

Since October 7, 1978, she has been married to the French scientist Jean Claude Barré.

Awards

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi has received numerous scientific awards, including the Körber Foundation's European Science Prize in 1986, the King Faisal Foundation's International Prize for Medicine in 1993 and the International AIDS Society Prize in 2001 . Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was appointed Officier in 2006, Grand Officier in 2013 and Grand Croix de la Légion d'Honneur in 2016 .

In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Luc Montagnier . The other half of the Nobel Prize went to the German virologist Harald zur Hausen .

In 2018 she was elected to the United States' National Academy of Medicine .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F. Barre-Sinoussi, JC Chermann, F. Rey, MT Nugeyre, S. Chamaret, J. Gruest, C. Dauguet, C. Axler-Blin, F. Vezinet-Brun, C. Rouzioux, W. Rozenbaum, and L. Montagnier: Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) . Science , Vol. 220, No. 4599, May 20, 1983, pp. 868-871.
  2. ↑ Press release of the Nobel Foundation (PDF; 249 kB) from October 6, 2008.
  3. ↑ National Academy of Medicine elects 85 new members. In: nam.edu. National Academy of Medicine, October 18, 2018, accessed October 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Barré-Sinoussi, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sinoussi, Françoise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French virologist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris