| Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Born: 30-Jul-1947
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Co-Discoverer of HIV French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2008, for work conducted with her colleague and co-Nobel recipient Luc Montagnier in the early 1980s. The two scientists identified a retrovirus, later known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). For years, Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi's discovery of HIV was contested by American researcher Robert C. Gallo, who discovered the same retrovirus independently, but the Nobel Committee made no mention of Gallo. Montagnier and Barré-Sinoussi shared their Nobel honors with Harald zur Hausen. Father: Roger Sinoussi (surveyor)
Mother: Jeanine Fau
Husband: Jean-Claude Barré (m. 7-Oct-1978)
University: PhD, Pasteur Institute, Garches, France (1975)
Scholar: National Cancer Institute (1975)
Administrator: Director of Research, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (1986-)
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008 (with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen)
National Institutes of Health (1975-)
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame 2006
King Faisal Prize for Medicine 1993
Körber Prize 1986
World Health Organization
Author of books:
Le SIDA en Questions (AIDS Issues) (1987, with Jean-Claude Chermann and Willy Rozenbaum)
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