Flossie Wong-Staal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Flossie Wong-Staal

American virologist

Date of Birth: 27-Aug-1947

Place of Birth: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Profession: biologist, virologist, molecular biologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Flossie Wong-Staal (born August 27, 1947), née Wong Yee Ching (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Huáng Yijìng), is 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 where she remains as the Chief Scientific Officer.