Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008

“for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus”

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist affiliated with the Institut Pasteur. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, together with Luc Montagnier, for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).