Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
(; born 30 July 1947) is a French
virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division () and Professor at the in Paris. Born in Paris, Barré-Sinoussi performed some of the fundamental work in the identification of the
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the cause of
AIDS. In 2008, Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor,
Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV. She mandatorily retired from active research on 31 August 2015, and fully retired by some time in 2017.
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