Bernard Moss
Bernard Moss (born July 26, 1937 ) is an American virologist , biochemist and molecular biologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
Life
Moss earned a bachelor's degree in biology from New York University in 1957 and an MD from New York University School of Medicine in 1961, with a medical degree. He then worked as an assistant doctor at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston . He earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge , Massachusetts . in biochemistry before turning to virology and joining the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a National Institutes of Health (NIH) facility in Bethesda , Maryland , in 1966 . There he became head of a working group in 1972 and head of the newly established department for viral diseases in 1984. Today (as of 2012) he also heads the genetic engineering department .
Moss also holds professorships (adjunct professor) at George Washington University in Washington, DC and the University of Maryland, College Park .
Act
He was able to isolate and characterize numerous enzymes from the particles of Orthopoxvirus vaccinia - the causative agent of cowpox - as well as identify different genes of the same virus and sequence their promoters . Moss is one of the discoverers of the capping of mRNA . He also developed a method to use viral DNA as a vector , especially for clinically important antigens .
Moss is a co-editor of Virology and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Virology , AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses , Current Opinion in Biotechnology , Advances in Virus Research, and the NIH Catalyst . He was President of the American Society for Virology from 1994 to 1995 .
Awards (selection)
- 1987 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Dickson Prize in Medicine
- 1994/1995 President of the American Society for Virology
- 2000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research
Web links
- Bernard Moss, MD, Ph.D. and Laboratory of Viral Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (niaid.nih.gov); Retrieved April 18, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Dickson Prize in Medicine Winners at the University of Pittsburgh (pitt.edu); Retrieved April 16, 2012
- ↑ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR VIROLOGY PRESIDENTS. (PDF, 154 kB) Retrieved April 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Dr. Bernard Moss wins the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award. In: eurekalert.org. November 15, 2000, accessed April 1, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Moss, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American virologist, biochemist, and molecular biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1937 |