2008-11-13

XinHua Stockholm on October 6 (Reporter Miao and Wu Ping) Karolinska School of Medicine announced on the 6th, 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded the German scientist Harald  Eitan and Hartson Two French scientists   Francoise Barre - Luc and Xi Nuoxi  montagny.

This year's ceremony, the practice is still known in the Karolinska Medical School, "the Nobel Hall" was held, can accommodate 200 people packed the ladder classroom. Nobel Prize selection committee of the Secretary-General Hans   En Waer about different languages first announced the list of winners.

This is the  Francoise Barre-Sinoussi photo in Paris (May 19, 2006 photo). XinHua News Agency / AFP

En Waer about that Hartson's award-winning achievements are found in human papilloma virus (HPV), the virus is the cause of cervical cancer culprit. Hartson will receive the award half of the prize money, that is, 5,000,000 Swedish kronor (about 700,000 U.S. dollars).

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier the award-winning success is found in the AIDS virus (HIV), they will share the other half of the prize money. Barr - Francoise Barre-Sinoussi is rare in recent years, Nobel Prize winner of one of the women.

This is Luc   montagny in Dubai gave a speech to the media information photographs (taken in December 2007). XinHua News Agency / AFP

Subsequently, the members of the jury, Professor Jan Andersson   details of the three winners of the achievements. He said that based on the findings, Professor Hausen, developed two kinds of human beings to prevent the second most common female cancer - cervical cancer vaccine effective. In the 1980s, Barr - and Xi Nuoxi montagny to copy the success of one type of HIV (HIV-1) gene fragment group eventually found the HIV replication cycle of HIV and the main component of pathology, which established Diagnosis of HIV-infected people.

This is Harald   Eitan Burghausen in Germany, Heidelberg's photo shoot. XinHua News Agency / AFP

72-year-old Hartson is working in the German Cancer Research Center and has served as the director of the Center. Barr - Xinuo Xi was born in 1947 in France, since the early 1970s, France has been the work of Pasteur Research Center. Montagny now 76 years old, now serves on the World AIDS Research and Prevention Foundation, focused on finding an AIDS vaccine and therapy.

Source: XinHua (October 7, 2008)