Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is internationally known as the director of the Regular Infection Division and a French Virologist. She made significant contributions to the fight against the AIDS epidemic and the development of advanced HIV treatments. The biologist has also done a lot of fundamental work in identifying HIV as the main cause of AIDS.

Barré-Sinoussi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, which she shared with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for discovering the cause of the virus and realizing that AIDS patients had swollen lymph glands. The virologist took mandatory retirement in 2015 but fully retired from research in 2017.

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