John Skehel

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Sir John Skehel James ( born February 27, 1941 in Blackburn) is a British virologist, known for research on influenza virus.

Skehel studied agricultural biochemistry at Aberystwyth University and in 1966 at the University of Manchester (then University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) Ph.D. in biochemistry. Subsequently he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen ( Marischal College 1965-1968 ) and Duke University. From 1971 he worked at the National Institute of Medical Research in Mill Hill ( United Kingdom ) on influenza virus. In 1984 he became head of the Department of Virology and 1987 Director of the Institute.

Skehel explored, such as the influenza virus fuses with the host cell and which proteins play a role.

1975 to 1993 he was director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza WHO.

In 1976 he was awarded the Robert Koch Prize, the 1986 Wilhelm Feldberg price, the 1988 Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 1992 and the ICN International Prize in Virology. In 1984 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Medal he received in 2003. He was knighted in 1996. He became honorary professor of Liverpool John Moores University in 1993 and he is an honorary doctor of the University and University College London. In 1997 he became an Honorary Professor of Virology at the University of Glasgow.

He was on the advisory board of the National Institutes of Health ( NIH) Influenza Centre and the HIV / AIDS Vaccine Centre of the NIH, the Pasteur Institute and the Hong Kong University, was chairman of the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, advisor of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in New York, is a member of Cancer Research UK and the advisory board of Novartis Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals InB in Delaware.

1968-1971 he was a Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.

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  • International Who's Who, 2000
  • Virologist
  • Honorary professor at a university
  • Knight Bachelor
  • Briton
  • Born in 1941
  • Man
  • Person ( University of Hong Kong )
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