HIV pathogenesis and the prospect for an HIV-vaccine

 

Seminar

HIV pathogenesis and the prospect for an HIV-vaccine

Prof. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

HIV pathogenesis and the prospect for an HIV-vaccine In 2008, Prof. Francoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Prof. Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 1983. She performed some of the fundamental work in the HIV as the cause of AIDS. Prof. Barré-Sinoussi´s unit in Virology Department, Institut Pasteur, works on understanding of the precise mechanism underlying HIV/SIV pathogenesis and its control, specifically on cellular restriction mechanisms that may limit viral replication and on regulation by immune system, including critical components of the innate immunity.