Vincent Racaniello
Vincent Raimondi Racaniello (born January 2, 1953 in Paterson , New Jersey ) is an American virologist and professor at Columbia University .
Life
Racaniello acquired in 1974 at Cornell University the Bachelor -degree in biology and was in 1980 Peter Palese PhD for PhD. In his dissertation, he examined the influenza virus , it was entitled Biochemical and Genetic Studies of Influenza B and C Viruses . As a post-doc with David Baltimore at MIT (1979–1982), Racaniello used recombinant DNA technology to clone and DNA sequence the genome of the poliovirus . With these resources he created the first infectious clone of an animal RNA virus.
In 1992 he received the Eli Lilly and Company Research Award . He was President of the American Society for Virology in 2014-15 .
Since 2008, he and other virologists have been running the Netcast This Week in Virology (TWiV), in which current results of virological research are presented and discussed.
Web links
literature
- Vincent R. Racaniello, David Baltimore: Cloned poliovirus complementary DNA is infectious in mammalian cells . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 214 , no. 4523 , 1981, ISSN 0021-8375 , pp. 916-919 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Palese, Chair of Mt. Sinai Microbiology Department . Retrieved May 29, 2012.
- ↑ Science , 214: 916-919 (1981), ISSN 0036-8075 .
- ↑ Vincent Racaniello et al. a .: This Week in Virology (TWiV). Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
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SURNAME | Racaniello, Vincent |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Racaniello, Vincent Raimondi (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American virologist and professor at Columbia University |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd January 1953 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paterson , New Jersey |