Volume 48, Issue 32 pp. 5815-5826
Review

25 Years after HIV Discovery: Prospects for Cure and Vaccine (Nobel Lecture)

Luc Montagnier Prof.

Luc Montagnier Prof.

World Foundation AIDS Research and Prevention, UNESCO, Paris (France)

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First published: 22 July 2009
Citations: 5

Copyright© The Nobel Foundation 2008. We thank the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, for permission to print this lecture.

Graphical Abstract

Viruses are the uniting theme of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier received their Prize for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and Harald zur Hausen identified that cervical cancer is triggered by papillomaviruses. The Nobel Laureates describe their research first-hand.

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