At virology blog, my goal is to educate you about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Why am I qualified to teach you virology? I have been studying viruses for over 30 years, starting in 1975, when I entered the Ph.D. program in Biomedical Sciences at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York. My thesis research, in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Palese, was focussed on...
The Digestive Disease National Coalition (DDNC) is an advocacy organization comprised of the major national voluntary and professional societies concerned with digestive diseases. The DDNC focuses on improving public policy related to digestive diseases and increasing public awareness with respect to the many diseases of the digestive system. The DDNC was founded in 1978 and is based in...
Born in Holland (close to the red light district). matriculated with a Ph.D. in Clinical Physiology and Nutritional Biochemistry at 19 - moved to South Africa to work (on the extra-corporeal circulation pump - Groote Schuur) & start med school. Landed in the middle of Apartheid and couldn't stay out of the way for very long. Imprisoned I escaped to Calcutta and spent 3 years hiding in a...
