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Flossie Wong-Staal, PhD
A Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist.
(1947 – )
A Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist.
The first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes.
In 1994 she was named as chairman of University of California, San Diego, newly created Center for AIDS Research.
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles