Luc Montagnier#

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Curriculum vitae#

• 1953 Post Graduate Diploma in Natural Sciences, Poitiers
• 1955 Bachelor of Science, Poitiers and Paris
• 1960 Ph.D. in Medicine, Paris

• 1955 - 1960 Assistant at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris
• 1960 Research Fellow at C.N.R.S (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
• 1960 - 1963 Visiting Post Doctoral Fellow at the Virus Research Unit of the Medical Research Council, Carshalton, Angleterre.
• 1963 Researcher at C.N.R.S.
• 1963 - 1964 Visiting Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Virology, Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1965 - 1972 Laboratory Chief at the Institute of Radium at Orsay (Curie Institute)
• 1967 Senior Research Officer, C.N.R.S.
• 1972 - 2000 Founder and Director of the Viral Oncology Unit at the Virology Department, Pasteur Institute
• 1974 - 1998 Director of Research, C.N.R.S.
• 1980 - 1985 Chief of the Virology Department and Head of the Post Graduate Course of General Virology, Pasteur Institute
• 1985 - 2000 Professor, Pasteur Institute
• 1991 - 1997 Chief of Retrovirus Department, Pasteur Institute
• 1997 - 2001 Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Queens College, CUNY, New York
• Since 1993 President of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, associated with UNESCO (Paris)
• Since 1999 Director of Research, Emeritus, C.N.R.S.
• Since 2000 Professor Emeritus, Pasteur Institute.
• Since 2005 President-CEO and Co-founder of several startups in biotechnology