Florida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science and Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) of Florida will present the 2012 Nobel Laureate Lecture on Friday, April 27 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Libby and Harry Dodson Auditorium, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. The featured speaker, Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Ph.D., shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Professor Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the 1980s. Currently the director of the Unit of Regulation of Retroviral Infections at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Barré-Sinoussi will speak on “HIV, A Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research.” Translational research means taking scientific discoveries that arise from laboratory, clinical or population studies and turning them into clinical applications to reduce the incidence and mortality from a specific disease or condition. The lecture is free and open to the public. Space is limited, and reservations are required. For more information or to RSVP, email nobel2012@science.fau.edu or visit www.science.fau.edu/nobel.
