Louis H. Miller

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Louis Howard Miller (born February 4, 1935 in Baltimore ) is an American parasitologist who deals with malaria .

Miller graduated from Haverford College with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and an M.-D. in medicine from Washington University in 1960 . He completed his specialist training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York (1960/61 internship, 1961–1963 residency at Mount Sinai and Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx). In 1964 he received a Master of Science degree from Columbia University . 1964/65 he was a Fellow of the National Institutes of Health at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center and carried out research at the SEATO Medical Research Laboratories in Bangkok from 1965 to 1967 . From 1967 he was first assistant professor and then professor of tropical medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at Columbia University. From 1971 to 1992 he headed the malaria department of the Parasitic Diseases Laboratory. He was head of the Parasitic Diseases Laboratory from 1995 and is head of the Malaria Cell Biology Section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases , where he has been since 1992.

From 1979 to 1987 he was on the steering committee of the WHO in their program for malaria immunization. From 1989 he was President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Among other things, he researched the ways in which malaria pathogens couple to the red blood cells and penetrate them. For example, they identified the Duffy Antigen (DARC) on the surface of red blood cells (a receptor for various chemokines ) as the receptor for Plasmodium vivax .

In 1985 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize . He also received the sixth Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases Research and the Commonwealth Award. Miller is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary member of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.

He has been married since 1959 and has one child.

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  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
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SURNAME Miller, Louis H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Louis Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore