By: Katie
Flossie Wong-Staal was born as Yee Ching Wong. She's an Asian woman, and her field is virology and molecular biology. She went to an all girls Catholic school. Flossie wasn't interested in science, but the more she studied it, the more she liked it. Her teacher encouraged her parents to change her name to something English, so her father named her after a typhoon that hit earlier that week.
Flossie Wong-Staal earned her doctorate in molecular biology in 1972. She's considered one of the world's top experts in viruses. For example, along with other colleagues, she identified HIV in 1983. She also was responsible the first cloning of HIV in 1985. Her cloning effort led to the first genetic mapping of the virus.
Flossie Wong-Staal was declared top women scientist of the previous decade in 1990. She is chairman of University of California at San Diego's Center for AIDS research. She is currently working to find vaccines against HIV and a cure for AIDS using the new technology of gene therapy.
Flossie Wong-Staal was born as Yee Ching Wong. She's an Asian woman, and her field is virology and molecular biology. She went to an all girls Catholic school. Flossie wasn't interested in science, but the more she studied it, the more she liked it. Her teacher encouraged her parents to change her name to something English, so her father named her after a typhoon that hit earlier that week.
Flossie Wong-Staal earned her doctorate in molecular biology in 1972. She's considered one of the world's top experts in viruses. For example, along with other colleagues, she identified HIV in 1983. She also was responsible the first cloning of HIV in 1985. Her cloning effort led to the first genetic mapping of the virus.
Flossie Wong-Staal was declared top women scientist of the previous decade in 1990. She is chairman of University of California at San Diego's Center for AIDS research. She is currently working to find vaccines against HIV and a cure for AIDS using the new technology of gene therapy.