Editorial
2008 Nobel prize in Medicine for discoverers of HIV
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* Corresponding author: Andrew ML Lever amll1@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk
1 University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
2 University of Amsterdam, Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands
Retrovirology 2008, 5:91 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-91
Published: 14 October 2008Abstract
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.