Harry Ruby

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Harry Rubin (born June 23, 1926 in New York City - † February 2, 2020 ) was an American cell biologist and virologist.

Rubin received his doctorate in veterinary medicine from Cornell University (DVM) in 1947 . From 1948 to 1952 he worked at the virus laboratory of the USPHS (United States Public Health Service) in Alabama and from 1952/53 at the laboratories of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis in California. From 1953 he conducted research at Caltech , in 1958 he became an associate professor and 1960 professor of virology at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1988 he switched to a professorship for molecular and cell biology in Berkeley.

In 1964 he and Renato Dulbecco received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for research into tumor viruses, an area in which Rubin was one of the pioneers, and his laboratory was one of the leading centers in tumor virus research in the 1950s and 1960s . In 1955 he showed that any cell in a tumor produced by a Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) could pass on infectious viruses without the cell dying. In 1962 he and Peter K. Vogt showed that there are viruses closely related to RSV that do not cause cancer but, just like RSV, multiply in host cells, so that the carcinogenic effect was independent of the RSV's reproductive cycle. In the 2000s he dealt with cancer development and the influence of the cellular micro-environment on tumor cells. He also dealt with the aging processes of cells and the general question of how order is imposed on the cellular level in living beings through contact of cells with one another in the tissue and how this is lost when tumors develop and age.

In 1959 he received the Rosenthal Award and in 1961 the Eli Lilly Award. In 1966 he was a Harvey Lecturer . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974).

He has been married since 1952 and has four children.

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  1. ↑ Biographical data from American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2005
  2. ↑ Robert Sanders: Virus expert and cancer biologist Harry Rubin dies at 93rd UC Berkeley, February 7, 2020, accessed February 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cell biologist and virologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2020