John L. Gerin

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John Louis Gerin (born 28 September 1937) is an American virologist who has worked on hepatitis viruses, and made important contributions to the discovery of the Hepatitis D genome in 1986.[1][2]

He obtained a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1959 and an MSc and PhD from the University of Tennessee in 1961 and 1964 respectively.[3]

In 1998, he was granted the King Faisal Prize along with Robert Purcell for "Control of Communicable Diseases".[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Thompson, Gilbert R., ed. (2014). Pioneers Of Medicine Without A Nobel Prize. p. 206.
  2. ^ Wang, KS; Choo, QL; Weiner, AJ; Ou, JH; Najarian, RC; Thayer, RM; Mullenbach, GT; Denniston, KJ; Gerin, JL; Houghton, M (9 October 1986). "Structure, sequence and expression of the hepatitis delta (delta) viral genome". Nature. 323 (6088): 508–14. Bibcode:1986Natur.323..508W. doi:10.1038/323508a0. PMID 3762705. S2CID 4265339.
  3. ^ "Professor John L.Gerin". King Faisal International Prize. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  4. ^ Hamdard Islamicus: Quarterly Journal of the Hamdard National Foundation, Pakistan. Pakistan: The Foundation, 1998.