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Oct 14 2008, 02:55 PM
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French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Their breakthrough discovery occurred in 1983, and was critical to the understanding that we now have about how HIV replicates and the affect that it has on the cells it infects. This understanding continues to produce increasingly more effective treatment interventions, while subsequently contributing to the wealth of biological and social knowledge that is available regarding the prevention of viral transmission. Montagnier acknowledged U.S. researcher Dr. Robert Gallo as someone also worthy of recognition in the early groundbreaking research into HIV. He and Gallo debated extensively during this time period, arguments which may have contributed significantly to Montagnier and Barre-Sinoussi’s discovery. The researchers will share the $1.4 million prize with Zur Hausen, a German medical doctor and scientist who discovered two high-risk types of the human papilloma virus (HPV). HPV is linked to cervical cancer in women and anal cancer in men who have sex with men. |
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