Flossie Wong-Staal
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 4 years ago |
Date of birth | August 27,1946 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Guangzhou |
China | |
Field | Virology |
Books | AIDS Vaccine Research |
Academic advisor | Robert Gallo |
Job | Molecular Biologist |
Died | La Jolla |
California | |
United States | |
Date of died | July 8,2020 |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
University of California San Diego | |
Known for | Cloning of HIV |
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ID | 1765892 |
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.