World Infectious Diseases Congress
World Infectious Diseases Congress
Stony Brook University
USA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Honorary Societies and Awards
2014 Loeffler-Frosch Medal by the Society of Virology
of Germany, Austria and Switzerland
2012 Member, National Academy of Sciences
2012 Robert-Koch Medal in Gold by the Robert-Koch
Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
The 2010 Beijerinck Price in Virology, by The Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (2008)
Lifetime Achievement Award, The Research Foundation of
the State University of New York, April 2008
Distinguished Professor of the State University of New
York at Stony Brook (2002)
Highly Cited Researcher 1980 –present
(ISIHighlyCited.com)
Fellow, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
von 1652 (1998)
Fellow, American Academy for Microbiology (1994)
Alexander von Humboldt-Forschungspreis (1996)
Research
We are excited about viruses, viewing them either as
chemical entities whose intriguing facility of proliferation is fascinating, or
as horrifying infectious agents causing appalling diseases in their host.
Accordingly, research in our laboratory can roughly be divided into two general
topics: viral replication and genetics at the cellular level, and mechanisms of
viral pathogenensis in a host organism.
Our research focuses on RNA viruses, particularly
picornaviruses, whose prototype is poliovirus. Picornaviruses, are estimated to
infect 6 billion humans per year, cause a bewildering array of disease
syndromes (paralysis, meningitis, heart disease, hepatitis, common cold, etc).