Bernard Roizman (born April 17, 1929) is an American scientist born in Romania. He is the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology in the Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago.[1]
Bernard Roizman | |
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| Born | April 17, 1929 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Virology, Herpes Simplex |
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Early life and education
editRoizman was born in Chișinău, Kingdom of Romania in 1929. As he later recalled, his early life was "shaped by World War II"[2] and the hardships his family endured as war refugees after being displaced in 1941 by the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The family eventually made their way to the United States in 1948, where they settled in Philadelphia.[2] Roizman received a scholarship to attend a Pennsylvanian college and enrolled at Temple University, from which he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He subsequently attended the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he received his Sc.D. in 1956.[1][2]
Academic career and research
editRoizman joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins after graduation, and later spent a year as a visiting scientist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.[2] When he returned to the United States he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1965.[1][2] He served as department chair from 1985 to 1988.[3] He was one of several prominent virologists involved in the founding of the American Society for Virology and organized a key meeting in Chicago that led to the society's establishment.[4]
Roizman's research interests focused on the herpes simplex virus, particularly on regulation of viral genes and on the use of site-specific mutagenesis to study viral gene function.[2][3] In 1999 he was involved in an inventorship dispute with a member of his research group, whose lawsuit was ultimately successful.[5][6]: 25–6
Awards and honors
edit- Elected: Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1979[1]
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991[1]
- Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 1992[1]
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research, 1998[7]
- Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2000[1]
- Institute of Medicine, 2001[1]
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004[1]
- Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology, 2017[8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Bernard Roizman". The University of Chicago. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f Roizman, Bernard (9 November 2015). "The Maturation of a Scientist: An Autobiography". Annual Review of Virology. 2 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1146/annurev-virology-100114-054829. PMID 26958904.
- ^ a b "Bernard Roizman, ScD". Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ Joklik WK, Grossberg SE (2006). "How the American Society for Virology was founded". Virology. 344 (1): 250–7. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2005.09.022. PMID 16364755.
- ^ Grimshaw, Kyle (2001). "A Victory for the Student Researcher: Chou v. University of Chicago". Duke Law & Technology Review. 1 (1): 1–7.
- ^ Herrington, TyAnna K. (2010). Intellectual property on campus : students' rights and responsibilities. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 9780809385843.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2013-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Bernard Roizman". National Academy of Sciences.
External links
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- Bernard Roizman profile at the University of Chicago