Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and Director of the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Division and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. Born in Paris, France, 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 August 31, 2015, and fully retired by some time in 2017.
Barré-Sinoussi in 2008
The human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who invented pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax and rabies. The institute was founded on 4 June 1887 and inaugurated on 14 November 1888.
Medical Center of Institut Pasteur, Paris, Rue de Vaugirard
Institut Pasteur in Bandung, Dutch East Indies Under the Guided Democracy period, the Indonesian government nationalized this branch into Bio Farma.
Institut Pasteur in Tunis, ca.1900
The building hosting the Museum and the funeral chapel of Pasteur
