Peter Palese

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Peter Palese (born April 15, 1944 in Linz ) is an Austro-American virologist .

Life

Peter Palese studied pharmacy and chemistry at the University of Vienna and graduated with a doctorate in chemistry in 1969 and a diploma in pharmacy in 1970. His doctoral supervisor was Hans Tuppy . This was followed by a postdoc at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology in Nutley, New Jersey.

In 1971 Peter Palese came to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and in quick succession became Assistant Professor (1971), Associate Professor (1974) and, at the age of 34, Professor of Microbiology (1978), where he has also been the director of the department since 1987 for Microbiology . In between, Peter Palese was visiting professor at the University of California in 1976 .

Palese was President of the Harvey Society from 2003 to 2004 and President of the American Society for Virology from 2005 to 2006 . Peter Palese is a member of numerous evaluation and advisory committees, such as B. the NIAID Study Section Virology, Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry or Advisory Board of the FDA (vaccines and related biological products).

Act

Peter Palese works primarily on fundamental questions relating to the genetics and biology of viruses . His working group uses molecular biological means to study the mechanism of viral replication and how viruses interact with cells. The main focus is on RNA viruses , including influenza , paramyxo and corona viruses ( SARS ).

Peter Palese has published more than 250 original scientific articles ( PubMed June 5, 2009) and is one of the most cited virologists worldwide. He is editor of the Journal of Virology and serves on the editorial boards of several other virology journals.

Awards

Peter Palese has received several national and international prizes and awards for his work, including the Gustav Stern Award (1980), the Howard Taylor Ricketts Award (2005), the Robert Koch Award (2006) and the highest scientific award in Austria, the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (2005). In 2007, the Wilhelm Exner Medal of the Austrian Trade Association followed .

Peter Palese has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a corresponding member of the German Society for Virology since 1998 . In 2000 he was accepted as a fellow in the American Academy for Microbiology and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In the following year he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2006 a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . In the same year Peter Palese received an honorary doctorate from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine . He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2014 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Austrian Trade Association honors the top researcher Palese
personal data
SURNAME Palese, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian virologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz