Flossie Wong-Staal
Flossie Wong-Staal
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. From 1990 to 2002, she held the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She was co-founder and, after retiring from UCSD, she became the chief scientific officer of Immusol, which was renamed iTherX Pharmaceuticals in 2007 when it transitioned to a drug development company focused on hepatitis C, and continued as chief scientific officer.
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Female
Date of Birth
August 27th, 1947
Age
77
Birth Place
People's Republic of China, Guangdong
Date of Death
July 8th, 2020
Died Aged
72
Star Sign
Virgo
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