Career
After excelling in school in Trinidad, Achong enrolled at University College Dublin, where he received his medical degree. He performed his post graduate studies at University of Bristol and worked at Lambeth Hospital in London in Clinical Pathology, while continuing as popular lecturer at the University of Bristol. Achong"s role in the discovery of was to prepare and examine cultured cells prepared from Burkitt"s lymphoma samples by electron microscopy.
In 1971 he made another major discovery, the Human foamy virus which belongs to the retrovirus family.
