Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos

Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos (born in Greece) is the leader of a group of the Perth Group which has claimed since 1988 that HIV has never been isolated and therefore may not exist. Papadopulos-Eleopulos has an undergraduate degree in nuclear physics from the University of Bucharest and works as a medical physicist at Royal Perth Hospital in Australia.
The Perth Group's speculation is completely rejected by the scientific community as HIV has been adequately isolated and shown to be the cause of AIDS.
Lack of academic credentials relevant to HIV
Papadopulos-Eleopulos does not work in HIV research or with AIDS patients Papadopulos-Eleopulos has no academic appointment and does not hold a doctorate; her highest academic degree is a Bachelor of Science in nuclear physics from the University of Bucharest. According to the hospital's executive director, Philip Montgomery:
Appearance at the appeal trial of Andre Parenzee
In late 2006 and early 2007, Papadopulos-Eleopulos and the other main Perth Group member, Valendar Turner, testified at the appeal for retrial of an HIV-positive man, Andre Chad Parenzee, who had been convicted on three counts of endangering life through having unprotected sex without informing his partners of his HIV status. Papadopulos-Eleopulos and Turner told the Supreme Court of South Australia that Parenzee should be acquitted because the existence of HIV had not been proven; HIV tests were unreliable; and there was no evidence for sexual transmission of HIV. Medical experts decried Papadopulos-Eleopulos' statements, with one expert witness calling them "insane", "outrageous" and "dangerous" for apparently encouraging unsafe sex.<ref name=PiraniAustralian/>
In his ruling in April 2007, Justice John Sulan dismissed the testimony of Papadopulos-Eleopulos and Turner and rejected the application for a retrial. He said that the pair were not qualified to give expert opinions about the existence or nature of HIV and that, "the probative value of the evidence proposed to be called by the applicant is minimal." According to Justice Sulan:

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