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A few weeks ago those of us in the HIV/AIDS community had a reason to celebrate - the individuals who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, Francoise Barre - Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, were recognized with the Nobel Prize for medicine.
Thomas DeLorenzo: Universal Healthcare -- Change has to Happen 2008
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To justify the expense of handing out drugs to people who don't have HIV, the trials need to show that PrEP lowers the chances of infection by at least half, said Francoise Barre - Sinoussi, a French researcher who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine after helping to discover that HIV causes AIDS.
BusinessWeek.com -- 2010
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Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier discovered human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
rediff.com 2008
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On Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to German Harald zur Hausen for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre - Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, were awarded for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
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On Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to German Harald zur Hausen for discovering the human papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer, while French scientists Francoise Barre - Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, were awarded for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.
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The Nobel Assembly of the statement said that the "significance" of Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier's "achievements should be viewed in the context of a global ubiquitous epidemic affecting close to 1\% of the population" (Nobel Foundation release, 10 / 6).
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Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Wins Nobel Prize Peggy 2008
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Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Wins Nobel Prize
Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Wins Nobel Prize Peggy 2008
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Virologist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi Wins Nobel Prize
Archive 2008-10-01 Peggy 2008
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I make no claims to being able to adjudicate the science of the controversy (despite growing up in a National Institutes of Health family, where my dad and Gallo both worked), but it does seem that despite Gallo's "disappointment" at not joining his French colleagues, the controversy (which required at one point an agreement between President Reagan and Prime Minister Chirac) has cooled and the scientific consensus has settled that Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier do have the legitimate claim to first scientific dibs here.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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