Patrick S. Moore

Patrick S. Moore ( born October 21, 1956 in Seattle ) is an American epidemiologist and virologist, known for the discovery of two human tumor viruses.

Moore studied chemistry and biology at Westminster College in Salt Lake City ( bachelor's degree ), Stanford University ( Master's degree, MS) at the University of Utah ( MD degree and Master of Philosophy, MPhil ) and the University of California, Berkeley ( Master of Public Health, MPH ). In 1985 he was in Ghana and 1986 in an onchocerciasis research project in Liberia at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital. He then worked as an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ), where he developed policies against meningitis ( meningococcal encephalitis) (for which he the Langmuir Prize of the CDC received ), from 1989 to 1991 involved in studies on the prevention of AIDS in California was (Berkeley ) and 1992 a team in the Somali civil war and related famine initiated (during which time he was head of the arbovirus group of the CDC in Fort Collins). He then worked briefly as an epidemiologist for the city of New York City ( Deputy Commissioner, NY City Department of Health), but then turned in the lab his wife Yuan Chang at Columbia University, the molecular genetic virus research. After both discovered a new human tumor virus, he received a permanent position as an Assistant Professor for Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology, 1998 with a full professorship. He's like Chang since 2002 professor at the University of Pittsburgh ( Cancer Institute ) and both lead there own laboratory. Moore is at the University Director of the Molecular Virology Program.

Together with his wife, the virologist Yuan Chang, he discovered two (currently seven known ) cancer viruses in humans, the KSHV ( Kaposi 's Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus, also human herpesvirus 8, HHV -8 ), initiators of Kaposi's sarcoma and other diseases, and the Merkel cell polyomavirus likely cause of Merkel cell carcinoma. Both discovered the virus KSHV 1994 sequenced the genome and identified its related oncogenes and developed tests for the virus. They developed a new technique (Digital Transcriptome Subtraction, DTS), with which she discovered her second virus ( Merkel cell polyomavirus ).

With Yuan Chang 1998, he received the Robert Koch Prize and both received the Charles S. Mott Prize for Cancer Research of General Motors and the 1997 Meyenburg price.