Flossie Wong-Staal, Ph.D.

Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal arrived at the National Cancer Institute in 1973 to pursue then-new molecular biology techniques that revealed the workings of cells at the molecular and genetic level. One of her early research projects was cloning and sequencing the first pathogenic huma retroviruses ever known to exist, an NCI discovery that also led the laboratory into AIDS research.

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