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List of the most influential people in Virology,

#401

Carolyn Williamson

#120965

Overall Influence

Carolyn Williamson is a South African virologist and microbiologist who is a professor of medical virology at the University of Cape Town. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa and the African Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Her research focuses on HIV vaccine development and prevention of the disease.

#402

Sonja M. Best

#87789

Overall Influence

Sonja Marie Best is an Australian-American virologist. She is chief of the innate immunity and pathogenesis section at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories. Best researches interactions between pathogenic viruses and the host immune response using flavivirus as a model.

#403

Sudhanshu Vrati

#87690

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Sudhanshu Vrati is an Indian immunologist, microbiologist and the director of the Regional Centre for Biotechnology. Known for his studies in the fields of RNA virus replication and vaccine development, Vrati is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2003.

#404

Hussein Naim

#139280

Overall Influence

Hussein Naim is a Lebanese-Swiss biochemist and molecular virologist, known for his research in cell biology and virology . He has held several leading positions at prominent universities and biotechnology centers.

#405

Kenneth Boyd Fraser

#168245

Overall Influence

1917 - 2001 (84 years)

Prof Kenneth Boyd Fraser FRSE MC was a British virologist and hero of the Second World War. He was known to friends as Kenny Fraser. He introduced Immunofluorescence in both academic and clinical fields. He discovered a link between the measles virus and multiple sclerosis.

#406

Maureen Goodenow

#97734

Overall Influence

Maureen Goodenow is an American scientist and Professor of Pathology, Immunology, and Laboratory Medicine. She is best known for her work on HIV/AIDS research and advocacy. Biography Goodenow received her B.A. in biology from Fordham University, and her Ph.D. in 1983 from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1983 to 1987, she completed postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. From 1998 to 2016, she was a member of the faculty of the University of Florida where she held the Stephany W. Holloway University Chair in AIDS Research. In 2016, Goodenow was appoint...

#407

Lloyd M. Kozloff

#177736

Overall Influence

1923 - 2012 (89 years)

Lloyd M. Kozloff was an American microbiologist and virologist. He served on the faculty of the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and University of California, San Francisco, where he became dean of the UCSF Graduate Division. Kozloff retired from UCSF in 1993. He died of heart failure in 2012.

#408

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

#33447

Overall Influence

Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume is a virologist with a primary research focus on herpes simplex virus, fusion and viral entry. She is a retired professor of virology from the University of Bologna, Italy.

#409

Sergei Netyosov

#44871

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sergei Viktorovich Netyosov is a Russian molecular biologist, a specialist in virus genomes. Biography Sergei Netyosov was born on April 19, 1953, in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Oblast. In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Novosibirsk State University.

#410

Christine L. Clouser

#38389

Overall Influence

Christine Clouser is an American virologist. During her graduate studies she discovered an interest in retro viruses and has since published scientific articles on the feline leukemia virus and HIV virus.

#411

Soumen Basak

#173883

Overall Influence

Soumen Basak is an Indian immunologist and virologist at the National Institute of Immunology . A former fellow of the Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance, he is known for his studies on the NF-kappaB signaling system.

#412

Jemma Geoghegan

#133732

Overall Influence

Jemma Louise Geoghegan is a Scottish-born evolutionary virologist, based at the University of Otago, New Zealand, who specialises in researching emerging infectious diseases and the use of metagenomics to trace the evolution of viruses. As a leader in several government-funded research projects, Geoghegan became the public face of genomic sequencing during New Zealand's response to COVID-19. Her research has contributed to the discussion about the likely cause of COVID-19 and the challenges around predicting pandemics. She was a recipient of the Young Tall Poppy Award in 2017, a Rutherford Di...

#413

Mireille Dosso

#125586

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Mireille Carmen Dosso is a Comorian-born Ivorian microbiologist and virologist. Appointed director of the Pasteur Institute in Abidjan in 2004, she has recently become one of the leading Africans to be involved in the fight against COVID-19. She has previously been successful in fighting other viruses, including the H1N1 swine fever pandemic and dengue fever in 2019.

#414

Moi Meng Ling

#26011

Overall Influence

Sherry Moi Meng Ling is a Malaysian virologist, currently serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on innate immune system to mosquito-borne virus infection and field epidemiology.

#415

Vittorio Colizzi

#71330

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Professor Vittorio Colizzi is an Italian virologist and one of the most eminent HIV/AIDS researchers in Europe. He directs the Immunochemical and Molecular Pathology laboratory in the biology department of Tor Vergata University in Rome. With his French colleague Luc Montagnier he has participated in many conferences, particularly in Africa, to combat the propagation of HIV.

#416

Yang Liu

#176676

Overall Influence

Yang Liu is a Chinese-American immunologist. He serves as director of the Division of Immunotherapy, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland Baltimore. Biography Liu was an associate research scientist at Yale School of Medicine, and then an assistant, and subsequently associate professor at the New York University Medical Center from 1992 to 1998. From 1998 to 2006, he was the Kurtz Chair Professor and the director of Division of Cancer Immunology, Department of Pathology, at the Ohio State University. From 2006 to 2012, he was the De Nancrede Professor and The director of Division of Immunotherapy in the department of surgery at the University of Michigan.

#417

Naoki Mori

#150454

Overall Influence

Naoki Mori is a Japanese virologist who is a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. He has received numerous awards for his research on human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 , a retrovirus which causes adult T-cell leukemia.

#418

Nerea Irigoyen

#185201

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Nerea Irigoyen Vergara is a virologist specialized in Zika virus. She leads a research group at the Department of Pathology of Cambridge University, in the UK. Career and research Nerea Irigoyen studied Pharmacy at the University of Navarra, Spain, and carried out her PhD at CNB-CSIC in Madrid, Spain, under the supervision of José Francisco Rodríguez and José Ruiz Castón. During her predoctoral studies, she spent several months abroad in Trieste, Italy, and Cambridge, UK. After graduating, she moved to the University of Cambridge to work as a Sir Henry Wellcome postdoctoral researcher in Prof...

#419

Mirela Delibegovic

#112581

Overall Influence

Mirela Delibegovic is a British pharmacologist/biochemist who is Dean for Industrial Engagement in Research & Knowledge Transfer and Director of Aberdeen Cardiovascular and Diabetes Centre. She holds a Personal Chair in Diabetes Physiology and Signalling at the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Delibegovic used artificial intelligence to develop technologies that would allow mass-screening for coronavirus disease 2019.

#420

Debi Prasad Sarkar

#61910

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Debi Prasad Sarkar is an Indian biochemist, immunologist and virologist. He was the head of biochemistry department and dean FIAS, at the University of Delhi South Campus and served as the director of IISER Mohali from 2017 to 2019. He then resumed his professorship and subsequently promoted to the post of senior professor of biochemistry, with effect from 18 July 2018 at the parent institute, University of Delhi. Serving as joint director, DSSEED, IoE, University of Delhi. On the scientific front, he is renowned for his researches on Sendai virus and developing reconstituted viral envelopes.

#421

Shu Hongbing

#156297

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Shu Hongbing is a Chinese cytologist and immunologist. He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and TWAS in 2012. Shu is mainly known for his work on cell signal transduction related to immunity.

#422

Margarita del Val

#63177

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Margarita del Val Latorre is a Spanish chemist, immunologist, and virologist. She coordinates the Salud Global platform run by the Spanish National Research Council . Early life and education Margarita del Val was born in Madrid in 1959 to the chemists Manuel del Val and Consuelo Latorre. del Val attended the Autonomous University of Madrid starting in 1976, during the Transition. During this time, increasing protests on university grounds against the Francoist dictatorship culminated in all Spanish universities going on strike starting in 1973, which was ongoing when she arrived at the university.

#423

Ijad Madisch

#177429

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Ijad Madisch is a German virologist, founder and CEO of the research network ResearchGate and member of the Digital Council of the Cabinet of Germany . Personal life Ijad Madisch was born in Wolfsburg to a Syrian family who immigrated to Germany. His elder brother is Ahmed Madisch, a professor and chief physician at Siloah hospital in Hannover. In 2000, Ijad got his Abitur from Gymnasium in Celle.

#424

Jean Cohen

#107388

Overall Influence

1941 - 2004 (63 years)

Jean Cohen was a French scientist, known for his studies on rotaviruses. Publications

#425

Fadila Bouamr

#183778

Overall Influence

Fadila Bouamr is a French-American virologist researching the molecular mechanisms that govern the assembly and egress of an infectious HIV-1 and the proteins involved in these processes. She is chief of the viral budding unit at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

#426

Bing Yan

#191103

Overall Influence

#427

Brian J. Ford

#11990

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Brian J. Ford HonFLS HonFRMS is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years. Ford is an international authority on the microscope. Throughout his career, Ford has been associated with many academic bodies. He was elected a Fellow of Cardiff University in 1986, was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, and has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society and of the Linnean Society of London. In America, he was awa...

#428

Crystal Watson

#163657

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Crystal Watson is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. She is an expert in health security, biodefense, and risk assessment and preparedness for emerging infectious diseases. She is currently working on the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

#429

Isabel Morgan

#61220

Overall Influence

1911 - 1996 (85 years)

Isabel Merrick Morgan was an American virologist at Johns Hopkins University, who prepared an experimental vaccine that protected monkeys against polio in a research team with David Bodian and Howard A. Howe. Their research led to the identification of three distinct serotypes of poliovirus, all of which must be incorporated for a vaccine to provide complete immunity from poliomyelitis. Morgan was the first to successfully use a killed-virus for polio inoculation in monkeys. After she married in 1949, she left the field of polio research in part because she was uncomfortable with trials that tested polio vaccines on the nerve tissue of children.

#430

Willy A. Flegel

Willy A. Flegel

#108897

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Willy Albert Flegel is a German-American medical researcher, geneticist, and physician who is best known for his work in the field of the Rh blood group. Flegel is the chief of the laboratory services section of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center .

#431

Zhang Yongzhen

#88607

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Zhang Yongzhen , also known as Yong-Zhen Zhang, is a Chinese virologist known for his work relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. A professor at Fudan University, Zhang has discovered numerous RNA viruses and created a network of labs dedicated to monitoring new viruses. He led the team that sequenced and published the genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in early January 2020.

#432

Robert C. Brunham

#185289

Overall Influence

Robert Conrad Brunham is a Canadian infectious disease specialist. He is the former Director of the UBC Centre for Disease Control and executive director and Scientific Director of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.

#433

Alick Isaacs

1921 - 1967 (46 years)

Alick Isaacs FRS was a Scottish virologist. Background and early life Isaacs's Jewish paternal grandparents came from Lithuania to escape oppression, and took the surname Isaacs. Alick's father Louis was born in 1890. His parents moved to Wigan and then to the Gorbals area of Glasgow where Isaacs was born.

#434

Peter Wildy

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

Norman Peter Leete Wildy was a 20th-century British virologist who was an expert on the herpes simplex virus. Education and personal life He was born in Tunbridge Wells in Kent on 31 March 1920 the son of Eric Lawrence Wildy an electrical engineer, and his wife, Gwendolen Leete . He was educated at Eastbourne College. He studied Medicine at Cambridge University graduating MB ChB, and completed his medical training at St Thomas Hospital, London. In 1945 he married Joan Audrey Kenion. They had a son and two daughters.

#435

Macfarlane Burnet

Macfarlane Burnet

1899 - 1985 (86 years)

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet , usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection.

#436

Dmitri Ivanovsky

Dmitri Ivanovsky

1864 - 1920 (56 years)

Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of :viruses , and one of the founders of virology. Life Ivanovsky was born in the village of Nizy, Gdov Uyezd. He studied at the University of Saint Petersburg under Andrei Famintsyn in 1887, when he was sent to Ukraine and Bessarabia to investigate a tobacco disease causing great damage to plantations located there at the time. Three years later, he was assigned to look into a similar disease occurrence of tobacco plants, this time raging in the Crimea region. He discovered that both incidents of disease were caused by an ...

#437

Erich Traub

1906 - 1985 (79 years)

Erich Traub was a German veterinarian, scientist and virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease. Traub was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps , a Nazi motorist corps, from 1938 to 1942. He worked directly for Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel , as the lab chief of the Nazis' leading bio-weapons facility on Riems Island.

#438

Max Theiler

1899 - 1972 (73 years)

Max Theiler was a South African-American virologist and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever in 1937, becoming the first African-born Nobel laureate.

#439

Lewellys Franklin Barker

#440

John R. Paul

1893 - 1971 (78 years)

John Rodman Paul was an American virologist whose research focused on the spread of polio and the development of treatments for the disease. Life and achievements Paul was born on April 18, 1893, in Philadelphia. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1915 from Princeton University and received his medical training at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which awarded him an M.D. degree. He began his career as an assistant pathologist at Johns Hopkins in 1919 and 1920, and followed that with an internship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia from 1920 to 1922. In 1928, Paul joined the facult...

#441

Maria Zambon

Maria Caterina Zambon FMedSci FRCPath, is a British virologist, director of reference microbiology for Public Health England and a professor. Her main research areas include influenza vaccination and influenza hemagglutination inhibition.

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