Interview with Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier(38 minutes)

Interview with the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. The Laureates discuss the differing timelines behind the breakthroughs in cervical cancer and HIV, how their discoveries were applied to creating treatments (10:37), the difficulties involved in making a vaccine for HIV (19:30), and why viruses might play a more important role in cancer (29:30). Credits: Ladda Productions AB (camera)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008