Vincent Racaniello

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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

  1. ↑ Peter Palese, Chair of Mt. Sinai Microbiology Department . Retrieved May 29, 2012.
  2. ↑ Science , 214: 916-919 (1981), ISSN  0036-8075 .
  3. ↑ Vincent Racaniello et al. a .: This Week in Virology (TWiV). Retrieved March 22, 2013 .
personal data
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