Lee Ho-wang

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 이호왕
Hanja 李 鎬 汪
Revised
Romanization 		I Ho-wang
McCune-
Reischauer 		Yi Howang

Lee Ho-wang (cited in the literature as Ho Wang Lee , born October 26, 1928 ) is a South Korean physician ( epidemiology , virology ).

Lee graduated from Seoul National University with an MD in medicine and received his PhD from the University of Minnesota . From 1954 to 1973 he was Professor of Microbiology at the Medical College of Seoul National University. From 1973 to 1994 he was director of the Institute of Viral Diseases at Korea University . Since 1994 he has been director of the ASAN Institute for Life Sciences in South Korea.

Lee succeeded in isolating the Hantaan virus in the late 1970s , after decades of searching in vain (with great effort). It got its name when in the Korean War in 1950 numerous US soldiers fell ill with the hemorrhagic fever it caused (often associated with kidney failure) and occurred repeatedly in North and South Korea (and similar forms in the People's Republic of China and other countries) . Lee compared the tissues (especially the otherwise rarely examined lung tissue) of rats in endemic areas and those on an island where the disease never occurred using immunofluorescence methods and demonstrated the transferability of the isolated virus to healthy rats.

The discovery led not only to a significant improvement in knowledge of the virus (genetic analysis, global distribution), but also to the discovery of at least five related viruses and the development of vaccines, in which Lee was also involved.

In 1992 he received the Ho Am Prize and in 1994 the Prince Mahidol Prize . He was accepted into the American Philosophical Society in 1998, the National Academy of Sciences in 2002, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lee, Luck Ju Baeck, Karl M. Johnson Isolation of Hantaan Virus, the etiologic agent of Korean Hemorrhagic Fever, from wild urban rats , The Journal of Infectious Diseases , Volume 146, 1982, p. 638
  2. ^ Past Ho-Am Prizes . The Ho-Am Foundation. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
  3. ^ Member History: Ho-Wang Lee. American Philosophical Society, accessed November 21, 2018 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Ho-wang is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lee, Ho-wang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 이호왕 (Korean, Hangeul); 李 鎬 汪 (Korean, Hanja); I, Ho-wang (Revised Romanization); Yi, Howang (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1928