Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and her research on the HIV-1 virus

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a retrovirologist, laureate of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of HIV (with Luc Montagnier) and President of the French AIDS charity Sidaction since November 2017. In recognition of her research on the HIV-1 virus, the Institut Pasteur proposed her appointment as a member of the US National Academy of Inventors.

With the Institut Pasteur now in its 130th year – it will be celebrating its 130th anniversary on November 14, 2018 – it seemed like a good opportunity to ask the laureate to tell us a little more about her discovery and her AIDS research.

This year of celebration offers a chance for the Institut Pasteur to highlight a discovery made in its laboratories once every month.

Read the interview