Flossie Wong-Staal was a molecular virologist whose research on HIV was crucial in the development of blood tests to detect the virus.A native of Hong Kong, Wong-Staal immigrated to the U.S.
as a student and later began working with the National Institutes of Health. In the 1970s, as her career was on the rise, science and medical research were still largely controlled by men.
Wong-Staal excelled as an early woman in the field and became the most cited woman in science of the 1980s. Among her achievements was discovering the first human retrovirus, HTLV-1, which causes diseases including lymphoma.
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