2008 Nobel prize in Medicine for discoverers of HIV

doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-91

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Editorial

2008 Nobel prize in Medicine for discoverers of HIV

Andrew ML Lever¹ and Ben Berkhout²

¹University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK

²University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands

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Retrovirology 2008, 5:91doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-91


Published:	14 October 2008

Abstract

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, codiscoverers of HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They share this prize with Harald zur Hausen who was responsible for establishing the link between human papilloma virus infection and cervical carcinoma.