1992_7
Archive ID: 1992_7Robin Weiss, a British molecular biologist and Professor of Viral Oncology at University College London, talks about the scientific contribution of small countries like Sweden, interdisciplinary collaborations in HIV research, HIV vaccines and programs for global health.
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"Robin Weiss has been one of the leading UK scientists committed to AIDS research but also to advocacy since the early years of the epidemic. His research has focused on retroviruses, initially as a means of understanding T-cell leukemia and other cancers, which may be caused by retroviruses. A breakthrough discovery in 1971 was that the retroviral genome in chickens follows the rules of Mendelian inheritance. Later his work moved on to HIV, also a retrovirus, and he made several new important discoveries, most notably identifying CD4 on lymphocytes as the binding receptor for HIV." - Staffan Hildebrand