Science: Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2008

The prize has been announced today. See the press release from the Nobel Foundation.

Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who identified the AIDS virus, split the prize with Harald zur Hausen'rk, who identified the virus behind cervical cancer.

Part of my molecular biology research life involved HIV/AIDS work in two different laboratories.

We all knew someday, the Nobel Prize would go to the discoverers of HIV. It was a question of when and whether or not the controversial Bob Gallo of NIH would also be recognized. Gallo was not mentioned in the press release.

Update: Here is a news summary from Science Magazine regarding the Nobel Prize announcement with comments from Gallo.

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