Peter Palese
Peter Palese ( born April 15, 1944 in Linz ) is an Austrian- American virologist.
Life
Peter Palese studied at the Vienna University of Pharmacy and Chemistry and graduated with a doctorate in chemistry in 1969 and a Diploma in Pharmacy from 1970. His doctoral supervisor was Hans Tuppy. There was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey.
In 1971, Peter Palese of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and has been in rapid succession, Assistant Professor (1971 ), associate professor (1974) and already with 34 years Professor of Microbiology (1978 ), where he since 1987 the position of Director of the Department for Microbiology clothed. In between was Peter Palese 1976 Visiting Professor at the University of California.
Palese from 2003 to 2004, President of the Harvey Society, and from 2005 to 2006 president of the American Society for Virology. Peter Palese is a member of numerous evaluation and advisory committees, such as the NIAID Study Section Virology, Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry or advisory committee of the FDA ( Vaccines and Related Biological Products).
Work
Peter Palese works primarily on fundamental questions concerning the genetics and biology of viruses. His group studied by molecular biological means the mechanism of viral reproduction and how viruses interact with cells. Main priorities are RNA viruses, including influenza, paramyxoviruses and coronaviruses (SARS).
Peter Palese has more than 250 original scientific contributions published (PubMed June 5, 2009) and is one of the most cited virologists worldwide. He is editor of the Journal of Virology and member of the editorial boards of several other virological journals.
Awards
Peter Palese was awarded for his work several national and international prizes and awards, including the Gustav Stern Award ( 1980), the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award ( 2005), the Robert Koch Prize (2006 ) and the highest scientific award in Austria, the Austrian Honour for Science and Art ( 2005). In 2007, the Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Trade Association followed.
Peter Palese is since 1998 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a corresponding member of the German Society for Virology. 2000 was followed by the recording as a Fellow in the American Academy for Microbiology and the election to the National Academy of Sciences. The following year he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2006 a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In the same year Peter Palese received an honorary doctorate from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.