Richard M. Krause

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Richard M. Krause (born January 4, 1925 in Marietta (Ohio) , † January 6, 2015 ) was an American immunologist and microbiologist.

Krause graduated from Marietta College (bachelor's degree in 1947) and studied medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (MD degree in 1952).

After the specialist training (internship, residency) at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis , he went in 1954 to the Rockefeller Institute and Hospital, where he became a professor. From 1975 he was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda.

There he took care of the adoption of recombinant genetic engineering and initiated field studies in Haiti and Zaire at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in order to trace the origins of the epidemic. He also directed the institute towards a return of the danger posed by bacteria, which he recognized at the time, about which he wrote the book The Restless Tide (1981).

In 1984 he retired from the Public Health Service and became dean of medicine at Emory University . In 1989 he became a scientific advisor to the Fogarty International Center at the NIH.

He studied the specific antigens in bacteria that cause the immune system to react, for example polysaccharides in streptococci , and investigated the genetic factors that influence the immune response.

In 1985 he received the Robert Koch Medal . He has received several honorary doctorates (including Marietta College, Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, University of Rochester, Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, and an honorary doctorate in law from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia).

In 1977 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1980 a member of its Institute of Medicine .

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  • Editor Emerging Infections , Academic Press 2000
  • The restless tide: the persistent challenge of the microbial world , National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, Washington DC 1981
  • Editor with Edgar Haber: Antibodies in human diagnosis and therapy , Raven Press 1977

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SURNAME Krause, Richard M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Marietta (Ohio)
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2015