Bernard Roizman is an American

United States

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 scientist born in Romania

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. He is currently the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology in the Departments of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and in Microbiology. of Biological Sciences, at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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Education

Bernard Roizman received his B.A. and M.S. from Temple University

Temple University

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, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and subsequently attended the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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where he received his Sc.D.

Career

Roizman is currently Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology in the Departments of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and in Microbiology.

A virologist, he is considered to be the world's foremost expert on the herpes simplex virus.

Awards and honors

Pasteur Award, Illinois Society of Microbiology, 1972;

Esther Langer Award, 1974.

Honorary Fellow, Pan American Cancer Cytology Soc., 1973;

Elected: Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1979;

Outstanding Alumnus in Public Health Award for 1984 Johns Hopkins Univ;

Centennial Medal, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 1987;

First annual ICN International Prize in Virology, 1988;

Society of Scholars, The Johns Hopkins University, 1988;

Fellow, Japanese Soc. for the Promotion of Science, 1989;

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991;

Sesquicentennial Gold Medal, University of Ferrara, Italy, 1991;

Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 1992;

Recipient, Bristol Myers Squibb Unsolicited Research Grant Award in Infectious Diseases, 1991–1995;

Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1995;

J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, 1997;

Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research, 1998;

Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2000;

Institute of Medicine, 2001;

NIH Outstanding Investigator Award 1988-2001;

Honorary member, Italian Soc. for Virology, 2002;

NIH-NCI Merit award, 2003;

Quantrell Award for Excellence in undergraduate teaching, 2003;

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004;

Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008;

Honorary degrees:

Doctorate in Humane Letters, Governors State University, IL. 1984;

Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery. University of Ferrara, Italy 1991;

Doctorate in Science, University of Paris, France, 1997;

Doctorate in Medicine, Univ. of Valladolid, Spain, 2001;

Professor (honoris causa) Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China, 1985;

Peking Union Medical College, China, 2002;

Shandong Univ, 2003;

Qingdao Univ. 2003;

Jiatong Univ Beijing 2007;

External links

• Bernard Roizman profile at the University of Chicago
• Expert Profile