Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier
Luc Antoine Montagnieris a French virologist and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus. A long-time researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he currently works as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 August 1932
CountryFrance
campaign french-scientist sexually time
I think in our campaign the most important time is 10 to 12 years old, before they get sexually active. At that time there is no sexual pressure.
aids attention believe danger disease french-scientist people receive
The danger is that many people believe that AIDS is a treatable disease and should not receive more attention than other diseases.
condition difficult ethical french-scientist high less natural
But it will be more and more difficult - and less and less ethical - to find populations in a natural condition of high infection.
viruses transmission response
Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.
vaccines people levels
My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.
interesting looks answers
Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.
research should application
Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
infection knows
We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.
experts ethical concern
I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
hiv viruses week
We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.
support psychological function
Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.
shapes saws causes
We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.
vaccines safety prevention
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
again cloudy hiv people though treated
They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.