Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

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

Life

Françoise Barré -Sinoussi is the daughter of Jeanine (born Fau ) and Roger Sinoussi and completed her secondary schooling at the Lycée Bergson. She laid in 1974 at the Faculté des sciences de Paris her doctorate and began her scientific career in 1975 at INSERM. At the Institut Pasteur in Paris Barré-Sinoussi began research on retroviruses. In the group of Luc Montagnier she succeeded in 1983, the HIV virus identification as a trigger of the disease AIDS. Barré -Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier and co-workers had isolated the virus from the tissue of an AIDS patient and initially called " Lympadenopathie -associated virus ". The simultaneous publication of the discovery of retroviruses by the group of Robert Charles Gallo led to a long-running legal dispute over the initial discovery.

In 1986, Barré-Sinoussi Head of Laboratory, Head of Department in 1992 and 1996, professor and head of the research group on the biology of retroviruses at the Institut Pasteur. In more than 200 publications and more than 250 conferences to Françoise Barré -Sinoussi has been used for the fight against AIDS. As a scientific consultant, she took part in anti-AIDS programs of the World Health Organization and the UN UNAIDS program.

Since October 7, 1978, she is married to Jean -Claude Barré.

Awards

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

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