George L. Drusano
George L. Drusano (* 1949 in Baltimore ) is an American physician.
Drusano attended Loyola High School in Baltimore and studied physics at Boston College with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and then medicine at the University of Maryland with a degree in 1975. There he completed his specialist training in internal medicine and infectious diseases (most recently as chief resident), became a professor there and was professor at Albany Medical Center from 1992, where he heads clinical pharmacology. He is the director of the Institute of Therapeutic Innovation at the University of Florida .
Drusano studied the pharmacodynamics of antibiotics against infectious diseases including mathematical modeling. These include antibiotics against tuberculosis, hospital germs such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa , hepatitis C and other viruses and germs used in biological weapons and bio-terrorism.
In 2012 he received the Maxwell Finland Award and in 1991 the Rhone-Poulenc Award. From 2000 to 2002 he was President of the International Society for Anti-Infective Pharmacology (ISAP). He is the editor of the pharmacology section of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy .
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| SURNAME | Drusano, George L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltimore |