Beatrice Hahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Beatrice Hahn

American biologist

Date of Birth: 13-Feb-1955

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Profession: virologist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Beatrice H.
Hahn (born February 13, 1955, Munich, Germany) is an American virologist and biomedical researcher.
She is a professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
In November 2002, Discover magazine listed Hahn as one of the 50 most important women scientists at that time.Hahn discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) originated in other primates and traversed to humans.
Hahn and her research group established that wild-living chimpanzees in southern Cameroon were a natural reservoir of Simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs).
They developed non-invasive techniques for gathering genetic data.
By making genetic comparisons between HIV-1 and SIVs, they found that SIVs had traversed between humans and nonhuman primate species through multiple connections.
HIV resulted from cross-species infections, with SIVs traveling from chimpanzees (SIVcpz) and gorillas (SIVgor) to humans. Hahn later determined that the malaria parasite also traversed from other primates to humans, in a single event.