HIV-AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?

***This event has been cancelled. See the Royal Society website for details.***

The 2010 Claude Bernard International Lecture
15 September 2010, London

Presented by Prof Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Head of the Unit "Regulation of Retroviral Infections" at the Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Prof Barré-Sinoussi started her research on HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s, demonstrating that the disease was caused by a retrovirus. The results of the successful isolation, amplification, and preliminary characterisation of the virus were published in Science in May 1983. This marked the beginning of a distinguished research career at the Institut Pasteur, culminating in receiving the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008, which she shared with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen.

To register for the lecture and reception, please email ClaudeBernardLecture@royalsociety.org

The Claude Bernard Lecture is given annually by a senior French scientist on a visit to the United Kingdom.