Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French scientist who, along with Luc Montagnier, discovered HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the virus that causes AIDS. Her groundbreaking work on identifying this virus was so significant that she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, making her one of the few women to receive this honor.

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FOLFIRINOX versus Gemcitabine for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
· 2011 · cited 6,568x
Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials
· 2010 · cited 5,402x
Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,039x
Isolation of a T-Lymphotropic Retrovirus from a Patient at Risk for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
· 1983 · cited 4,829x
The IASLC Lung Cancer Staging Project: Proposals for Revision of the TNM Stage Groupings in the Forthcoming (Eighth) Edition of the TNM Classification for Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 3,633x

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ( French: [fʁɑ̃swaz baʁesinusi] ; born 30 July 1947) is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division (French: Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales) and Professor at the Institut Pasteur 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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