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He worked as a researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and as a full-time professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.","summary_more":["In 2017, Montagnier was criticised by other academics for using his Nobel prize status to \"spread dangerous health messages outside of his field of knowledge\". During the COVID-19 pandemic, Montagnier promoted the lab-leak theory that SARS-CoV-2, the causative virus, was deliberately created and escaped from a laboratory. 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Luc Montagnier-press conference Dec 06th, 2008-6.jpg — Prolineserver ( talk ), GFDL 1.2.","cite":"\"Luc Montagnier\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/luc-montagnier. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T14:28:19Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/luc-montagnier","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/luc-montagnier","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/luc-montagnier?lang=ne"}}