Physiology or Medicine
Finding the key to safe blood transfusions
Do you know your blood type? Today, we take it for granted that people have different blood types. But not so long ago, most people believed all blood was the same – a fatal misunderstanding. At a glance Karl Landsteiner’s research in the early 1900s led to the classification of blood into groups. The discovery…
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FRANÇOISE BARRÉ-SINOUSSI
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi dedicated her career as a scientist and as an activist to halting the spread of AIDS. Her discovery of HIV led to blood tests that could detect the infection, and ultimately to anti retroviral medications that have turned AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. For the people around the world who don’t have access to AIDS drugs, Barré-Sinoussi has been a tireless advocate.
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ROSALYN YALOW
Rosalyn Yalow became a physicist at a time when being a woman was a serious impediment to success. But succeed she did. With her research partner Solomon Berson, she made a transformative contribution to medical research: radioimmunoassay, a method for measuring concentrations of substances in the blood.
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