Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor of Virology Myron E. Essex, who made milestone discoveries in the initial quest to identify the AIDS virus, will travel to New York City in November to accept the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award...
...same ceremony, awards will go to National Institutes of Health physician Robert C. Gallo, chief of the tumor cell biology laboratory, and Luc Montagnier, professor of viral oncology at France's Pasteur Institute. The scientists are credited with isolating the AIDS virus...
...year-old Lasker Foundation cited Essex for critical work dating back to the early '70s, including the discovery of the first cancer-causing virus...
Nearly lost in the short-lived uproar over the French findings was Chermann's belief that the insects may offer valuable clues to a central riddle. The AIDS virus does not appear to reproduce in insects, he said; if scientists could find out why, they could perhaps develop an AIDS treatment. Such a solution is a long way off, though, and the prognosis for AIDS victims remains grim. Their comforts must be derived chiefly from the effort to live as normally as possible in the face of a ticking clock -- an exhausting enough business without prejudice or the threat...
...decades the deans of 36 other medical schools have taken their degrees in Cambridge. "Most medical schools have a single university hospital," notes former Harvard Dean Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...