Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal Oral History 1997

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Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal Oral History 1997

1997

https://history.nih.gov/display/history/Wong-Staal%2C+Flossie+1997

This is an oral history interview with Flossie Wong-Staal, Ph.D. about the National Institutes of Health’s response to AIDS. The interview was conducted at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on 10 December 1997. The interviewers are Victoria Harden, Ph.D., Director, Office of NIH History, and Caroline Hannaway, Ph.D., Historical Contractor, NIH.

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National Institute of Health (U.S.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676733

National Institute of Health (U.S.)

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Wong-Staal, Flossie, 1946-2020

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Flossie Wong-Staal 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 hep...