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Flossie Wong-Staal

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Gender Female
Death4 years ago
Date of birth August 27,1946
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Guangzhou
China
Field Virology
BooksAIDS Vaccine Research
Academic advisor Robert Gallo
Job Molecular Biologist
DiedLa Jolla
California
United States
Date of died July 8,2020
Education University of California, Los Angeles
University of California San Diego
Known forCloning of HIV
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Date of Upd.
ID1765892
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Flossie Wong-Staal Life story


Flossie Wong-Staal was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

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