Douglas R. Lowy

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Douglas R. Lowy

Douglas Ronald Lowy (born May 25, 1942 in New York City ) is an American virologist and oncologist.

Lowy, whose parents were doctors, first studied history, art and French at Amherst College with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and only turned to medicine at New York University with a degree (MD) in 1968. He then completed training in internal medicine at Stanford University and dermatology at Yale University, but then turned to research. In the early 1970s he got his own laboratory in the Virus Research Department of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). In 1975 he went to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he became head of the Laboratory for Molecular Oncology. He was Associate Director of the NCI's Center for Cancer Research and is Acting Director of NCI in 2017.

He is known for developing a vaccine for prophylaxis against the papillomavirus HPV with John T. Schiller . This resulted in the commercial vaccines Cervarix and Gardasil. He also researched HPV and identified many parts of its life cycle.

He also does research on cancer genes.

In 2017 he and John T. Schiller received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award and in 2011 the Albert Sabin Gold Medal. For 2018, both were awarded the Szent-Györgyi Prize of the National Foundation for Cancer Research. Lowy also received the NIAID's Wallace P. Rowe Award for Excellence in Virology Research, the Novartis Award in Clinical Immunology, the Dorothy P. Landon Award from the American Association for Cancer Research , the Nathan Davis Award from the American Medical Association, and the 2007 Service to America - Federal Employee of the Year Award. He received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation for 2012 and the National Medal of Honor for Basic Research from the American Cancer Society . In 2009 Lowy was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

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  1. ↑ Biography in David E. Newton, Vaccination Controversies: A Reference Handbook, ABC-Clio 2013, pp. 193f
  2. ↑ 2018 Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize Awarded to NCI Oncologists . February 15, 2018 ( nfcr.org [accessed March 31, 2018]).
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SURNAME Lowy, Douglas R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lowy, Douglas Ronald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American virologist and oncologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City