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Senior Scientist chez CEA - Commissariat l'nergie atomique et aux nergies alternatives
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Pierre Roques obtained his PhD for Biological application of Alpha-acetylenic Ester in University Paris VI in 1989. Within Pr F Gros lab. in College de France, he synthesized potential anti-retroviral drugs that he tested on HIV during is military period.
Hired in CEA in 1989 in the group of the late D. Dormont, he focused on mother to infant HIV transmission, and the associated risk factors in French, African cohorts as well as on HIV viral diversity in collaboration with the Barr-Sinoussis Pasteur Group. Following the characterization of rare genotypes of HIV, we were the first to assess the chimpanzee origin of Group-N HIVs.
In Gabon in 2000, head of the Retrovirology unit of th...
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