Flossie Wong-Staal is one of the world's foremost authorities in the field of virology, the study of viruses, and is one of America's pioneering researchers of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Wong-Staal has continued her AIDS research, working specifically in gene therapy, one of the most technologically sophisticated areas in medical research. In 1990 she was listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the top woman scientist of the past decade and the fourth-ranking scientist under age 45.
Wong-Staal was an excellent student and did especially well in science and math As she excelled in school, Wong-Staal was encouraged to study science further. At first, she was not that interested in it, but the deeper she got into the field. Wong-Staal immigrated to the United States to study at the University of California at Los Angeles. . Beetwen 1965 and 1970 she married (she has since divorced). In the early 1970s, having completed her schooling, Wong-Staal took a position with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, where she worked in the field of retroviruses with the prominent researcher Robert Gallo, credited as in 1983 Wong Staal and Gallo discovered HIV simultaneously with a French researcher. Wong-Staal was instrumental in this very important work; she was specifically responsible for the first cloning of HIV in 1985. In 1990 Wong-Staal left the National Cancer Institute to become the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Wong-Staal and her staff at UCSD, in collaboration with five other research institutions across the United States This is just one of the many areas being researched around the world in an all-out effort to stop the spread of this global epidemic
Wong-Staal was an excellent student and did especially well in science and math As she excelled in school, Wong-Staal was encouraged to study science further. At first, she was not that interested in it, but the deeper she got into the field. Wong-Staal immigrated to the United States to study at the University of California at Los Angeles. . Beetwen 1965 and 1970 she married (she has since divorced). In the early 1970s, having completed her schooling, Wong-Staal took a position with the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, where she worked in the field of retroviruses with the prominent researcher Robert Gallo, credited as in 1983 Wong Staal and Gallo discovered HIV simultaneously with a French researcher. Wong-Staal was instrumental in this very important work; she was specifically responsible for the first cloning of HIV in 1985. In 1990 Wong-Staal left the National Cancer Institute to become the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Wong-Staal and her staff at UCSD, in collaboration with five other research institutions across the United States This is just one of the many areas being researched around the world in an all-out effort to stop the spread of this global epidemic
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