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Luc Montagnier

Luc Montagnier

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Immunology

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94
Citations
47629
World Ranking
917
National Ranking
30

Medicine

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94
Citations
47987
World Ranking
10269
National Ranking
321

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Nobel Prize for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus
  • 1997 - Warren Alpert Foundation Prize For their discovery of human immune deficiency virus (HIV).
  • 1993 - King Faisal Prize
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1990 - Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award, American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
  • 1988 - Japan Prize for the discovery of the AIDS-causing virus and development of diagnostic methods.
  • 1988 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1987 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 1985 - Society Citation Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Luc Montagnier was primarily affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France. Their research spanned several fields within medicine and biology, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The work also covered specialized subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, animal science and zoology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist contributed to multiple topics, notably SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, COVID-19 clinical research studies, fractal and DNA sequence analysis, machine learning in bioinformatics, origins and evolution of life, and animal virus infections studies.

Their publication record includes papers in various research venues, among which the most frequent were the International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Selected recent papers include:

  • COVID-19, SARS AND BATS CORONAVIRUSES GENOMES PECULIAR HOMOLOGOUS RNA SEQUENCES, 2020, International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH
  • Emergence of a New Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: 26 Cases of the Human Version of Mad-Cow Disease, Days After a COVID-19 Injection, 2023, International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research
  • SIX FRACTAL CODES OF LIFE FROM BIOATOMS ATOMIC MASS TO CHROMOSOMES NUMERICAL STANDING WAVES: THREE BREAKTHOUGHS IN ASTROBIOLOGY, CANCERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2021, International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH
  • HIV MAN-MANIPULATED CORONAVIRUS GENOME EVOLUTION TRENDS, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist frequently collaborated with coauthors including Jean claude Perez and Claire Moret-Chalmin.

Montagnier received several awards over the course of their career, including the Nobel Prize in 2008 for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus.

  • Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, 1997, for the discovery of human immune deficiency virus (HIV).
  • King Faisal Prize, 1993
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1992
  • Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award, American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), 1990
  • Japan Prize, 1988, for the discovery of the AIDS-causing virus and development of diagnostic methods.
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1988
  • Canada Gairdner International Award, 1987
  • Society Citation Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America, 1985
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

    F. Barré-Sinoussi;J. C. Chermann;F. Rey;M. T. Nugeyre

  • T-lymphocyte T4 molecule behaves as the receptor for human retrovirus LAV

    David Klatzmann;Eric Champagne;Sophie Chamaret;Jacqueline Gruest

  • HIV-1 Genome Nuclear Import Is Mediated by a Central DNA Flap

    Véronique Zennou;Caroline Petit;Denise Guetard;Ulf Nerhbass

  • Genome organization and transactivation of the human immunodeficiency virus type 2.

    Mireille Guyader;Michael Emerman;Pierre Sonigo;François Clavel;François Clavel

  • Human immunodeficiency viruses.

    John Coffin;Ashley Haase;Jay A. Levy;Luc Montagnier

  • HIV F/3' orf encodes a phosphorylated GTP-binding protein resembling an oncogene product

    Bruno Guy;Marie Paule Kieny;Yves Riviere;Christian Le Peuch

  • Genetic variability of the AIDS virus: Nucleotide sequence analysis of two isolates from African patients

    Marc Alizon;Simon Wain-Hobson;Luc Montagnier;Pierre Sonigo

  • Infection of chimpanzees by human T-lymphotropic retroviruses in brain and other tissues from AIDS patients.

    D. Carleton Gajdusek;Clarence J. Gibbs;Pamela Rodgers-Johnson;Herbert L. Amyx

  • Programmed cell death in peripheral lymphocytes from HIV-infected persons: increased susceptibility to apoptosis of CD4 and CD8 T cells correlates with lymphocyte activation and with disease progression.

    M L Gougeon;H Lecoeur;A Dulioust;M G Enouf

  • Apoptosis in AIDS

    Marie-Lise Gougeon;Luc Montagnier

  • Lifestyle-related factors and environmental agents causing cancer: an overview.

    P. Irigaray;J. A. Newby;R. Clapp;Lennart Hardell

  • Molecular cloning and polymorphism of the human immune deficiency virus type 2

    François Clavel;Mireille Guyader;Denise Guétard;Mireille Sallé

  • The cytopathic effect of hiv is associated with apoptosis

    Anne G. Laurent-Crawford;Bernard Krust;Sylviane Muller;Yves Rivière

  • Changes in growth properties on passage in tissue culture of viruses derived from infectious molecular clones of HIV-1LAI, HIV-1MAL, and HIV-1ELI.

    Keith Peden;Michael Emerman;Luc Montagnier

  • Adaptation of Lymphadenopathy Associated Virus (LAV) to Replication in EBV-Transformed B Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines

    L. Montagnier;J. Gruest;S. Chamaret;C. Dauguet

  • Weekly Pulse Methotrexate in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Clinical and Immunologic Effects in a Randomized, Double-Blind Study

    Peter A. Andersen;Sterling G. West;James R. O'dell;Charles S. Via

  • Inactivation of lymphadenopathy-associated virus by heat, gamma rays, and ultraviolet light.

    B. Spire;F. Barré-Sinoussi;D. Dormont;L. Montagnier

  • The multitude and diversity of environmental carcinogens.

    Dominique Belpomme;Philippe Irigaray;Lennart Hardell;Richard Clapp

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 Infection Associated with AIDS in West Africa

    François Clavel;Kamal Mansinho;Sophie Chamaret;Denise Guetard

  • Simian immunodeficiency virus replicates to high levels in sooty mangabeys without inducing disease.

    Marie-Anne Rey-Cuillé;Jean-Luc Berthier;Marie-Claude Bomsel-Demontoy;Yves Chaduc

  • Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). 1983.

    F Barré-Sinoussi;J C Chermann;F Rey;M T Nugeyre

Frequent Co-Authors

François Clavel
François Clavel Grenoble Alpes University
David Klatzmann
David Klatzmann Sorbonne University
Simon Wain-Hobson
Simon Wain-Hobson Institut Pasteur
Alain Blanchard
Alain Blanchard University of Bordeaux
Robert C. Gallo
Robert C. Gallo University of South Florida
Ara G. Hovanessian
Ara G. Hovanessian Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christine Katlama
Christine Katlama Sorbonne University
Marie-Lise Gougeon
Marie-Lise Gougeon Institut Pasteur
Christine Rouzioux
Christine Rouzioux Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital

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