HIV pathogenesis. Is a vaccine possible?
Webcast by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, on the current and future state of HIV research.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, recently gave a keynote speech at a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Prous Science—Timely Topics in Medicine-SIDA. In her presentation, Prof. Barré-Sinoussi discusses HIV pathogenesis, and the important lessons it provides for the future development of HIV/AIDS vaccines.
Professor Barré-Sinoussi is a researcher at the Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit of the Virology Department, Pasteur Institute, Paris, and was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of HIV in 1983.
Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, Head of HIV Unit at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, and Dr. Josep M. Gatell, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, are codirectors of the continuing medical education program on AIDS, jointly sponsored by Abbott, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Gilead, Janssen-Cilag and Pfizer.
HIV Pathogenesis and the prospects of an HIV/AIDS vaccine, view the webcast.
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