Flossie Wong-Staal (née Wong Yee Ching, Chinese: 黄以静; pinyin: Huáng Yǐjìng; August 27, 1946 – July 8, 2020) was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the …

Sep 11, 2020 · Flossie Wong-Staal, a leader in HIV research at the onset of the AIDS epidemic, died on 8 July at the age of 73. A pioneer in the genetic structure and regulatory mechanisms …

Jul 13, 2020 · Flossie Wong-Staal, Ph.D., a pioneering former NIH scientist, a major figure in the discovery of HIV and the first to clone that virus, died on July 8, 2020, from a pneumonia …

Flossie Wong-Staal leaves behind a lasting legacy. As a molecular biologist, she was part of a team that identified HIV as the cause of AIDS. She is also credited with being the first person …

Jul 17, 2020 · Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular biologist who helped establish H.I.V. as the cause of AIDS, revealed the virus’s inner-workings by cloning it and then laid the foundation for …

Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal, a world-renowned molecular biologist and virologist and one of the pioneers in research on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative agent of the …

Flossie Wong-Staal was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist, who pioneered HIV and AIDS research. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of …

Jul 10, 2020 · Flossie Wong-Staal, the Chinese-American virologist who saved countless lives by helping identify the cause of AIDS and who transformed UC San Diego into one of the world’s …

May 22, 2015 · Wong-Staal was the first scientist to clone HIV. After receiving her doctorate, she began to research retroviruses at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In 1983, she and her …

Jul 16, 2020 · Flossie Wong-Staal — a pioneering former NIH scientist, a major figure in the discovery of HIV, and the first to clone that virus — died on July 8, 2020. She was 73 years old.