Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

Nobel Prize lecture

HIV: a Discovery Opening the Road to Novel Scientific Achievements and Global Health Improvement

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2008 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Björn Vennström, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 2008 at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She was introduced by Professor Björn Vennström, Member of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.

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From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 2008, Editor Karl Grandin, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 2009

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