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Pioneering HIV researcher Dr Joseph Sonnabend dies aged 88 – OUTinPerth
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Pioneering HIV researcher, physician, and author Dr Joseph Sonnabend has died in London aged 88.
Born in South Africa, he grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) before retuning to South Africa to study infectious diseases at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He continued his education at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland.
In the 1960’s he worked in London under Alick Isaacs, the co-discoverer of interferons, a group of signaling proteins made and released by host…
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