Flossie Wong-Staal
KEYWORDS: Yee Ching Wong, Flossie Wong-Staal, AIDS, HIV
SHE THOUGHT IT Flossie Wong-Staal is a Chinese-American scientist who holds a bachelor’s degree in Bacteriology (1968) and a PhD in Molecular Biology (1972) both from the University of California in Los Angeles. Her professional career in a laboratory started in the early 1970s when she joined the National Cancer Institute and began working with a pioneer scientist in the field of AIDS, Robert Gallo, with whom she researched retroviruses: “single-stranded RNA viruses that produce reverse transcriptase by means of which DNA is produced using their RNA as a template and incorporated into the genome of infected cells, that are often tumorigenic, and that include the lentiviruses (… Continue Reading (12 minute read)