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The 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for Viral Discoveries

Posted on October 06, 2008

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Dr. Harald zur Hausen of Germany for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer, and to Drs. Fran oise Barr -Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France for their discovery of HIV virus. The following is from the statement by the Nobel Foundation:Harald zur Hausen went against current dogma and postulated that oncogenic human papilloma virus (HPV) caused cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women. He realized that HPV-DNA could exist in a non-productive state in the tumours, and should be ...

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cancer , cervical cancer , hiv , human immunodeficiency virus