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Sarkozy congratulates French Nobel Prize winners (Extra)
Oct 6, 2008, 11:43 GMT
Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday congratulated Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, who were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their discovery of the retrovirus that causes AIDS.
After extending his 'heartiest congratulations,' in his own name and that of the nation, Sarkozy noted, in a statement released by his office, that it was the first Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to a French team since 1980.
'The discovery of the AIDS virus at the beginning of the 1980s marked the start of a period of intense research that led to the creation of anti-retrovirus treatments,' Sarkozy said. 'Today millions of people around the world are benefiting from these treatments.'
The French president went on to say that the award 'honours all of French and European medicine and biomedical research.'
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