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Flossie Wong-Staal

1946 - 2020

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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 first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS. From 1990 to 2002, she held the Florence Riford Chair in AIDS Research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She was co-founder and, after retiring from UCSD, she became the chief scientific officer of Immusol, which was renamed iTherX Pharmaceuticals in 2007 when it transitioned to a drug development company focused on hepatitis C and continued as chief scientific officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Flossie Wong-Staal is the 883rd most popular biologist (up from 981st in 2019), the 903rd most popular biography from China (up from 1,016th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Chinese Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Flossie Wong-Staal ranks 883 out of 1,097. Before her are Ann Bishop, William Hemsley, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, Théodore Monod, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Henry Baker. After her are Charles Tate Regan, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Thomas Andrew Knight, Jakob Emanuel Lange, William Townsend Aiton, and Tokiharu Abe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Flossie Wong-Staal ranks 538. Before her are Tadevuš Kandrusievič, Pierfranco Vianelli, Viivi Luik, Martin van Creveld, Eva Šuranová, and Claudette Werleigh. After her are Mo Ibrahim, Charles Asati, Roselyne Bachelot, Harald Irmscher, Tom Walkinshaw, and Vladimir Muntyan. Among people deceased in 2020, Flossie Wong-Staal ranks 482. Before her are Dieter Krause, Nikolai Gubenko, Nina Andreyeva, Ephrem M'Bom, Tilo Prückner, and Hawa Abdi. After her are Oskar Fischer, Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, Claude Barthélemy, Efraín Sánchez, Kiki Dimoula, and Ben Bova.

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In China

Among people born in China, Flossie Wong-Staal ranks 903 out of 1,610. Before her are Li Li-hua (1924), Toshiko Fujita (1950), Liu Yang (1978), P. C. Chang (1892), Xie Fuzhi (1909), and Lin Shu (1852). After her are Keye Luke (1904), Paul Yü Pin (1901), Ding Xuexiang (1962), John Baptist Wu (1925), Liang Shuming (1893), and Dilraba Dilmurat (1992).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In China

Among biologists born in China, Flossie Wong-Staal ranks 2. Before her are Leizu (null). After her are Yang Zhongjian (1897), Shi Zhengli (1964), Xu Xing (1969), and Feng Zhang (1981).

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