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Montreal Gazette - Montreal AIDS researcher honoured

Published: 28 December 2011

Pioneering AIDS researcher Mark Wainberg has been elected a Fellow of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science “for distinguished contributions to HIV drug development,” among other achievements.

Wainberg, director of the 91˿Ƶ AIDS Centre, has been credited for his 1989 work with BioChem Pharma in the identification of 3TC as an anti-viral drug. The AAAS also lauded the 66-year-old Wainberg for “striving to make HIV drug access a reality for all.”

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