Charles M. Rice

Charles M. Rice
Born (1952-08-25)August 25, 1952
Sacramento, CA[1]
Institutions
Alma mater
Notable awards

Charles M. Rice is an American virologist whose main area of research is hepatitis C virus. He is a professor of virology at the Rockefeller University. He received the 2016 Lasker Award for Clinical Research, jointly with Ralf F. W. Bartenschlager and Michael J. Sofia.[2][3]

Rice is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences and was president of the American Society for Virology from 2002 to 2003.

Education and career

Rice graduated with a BS in zoology from University of California, Davis in 1974. In 1981, he received his PhD in biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied RNA viruses in the lab of James Strauss. He remained at Caltech for four years to do postdoctoral research.[4][5] After his postdoctoral work, Rice moved to the Washington University School of Medicine as an assistant professor in 1986, where he remained until 2001, eventually rising to the rank of professor.

Rice has been the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor at Rockefeller University since 2001. He is also an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Medicine and Cornell University. He has served on committees for the FDA, NIH, and WHO.[6]

He was the editor of J. Exp. Med. from 2003 to 2007, J. Virology from 2003 to 2008, and PLoS Pathogens from 2005 to present. He has been an author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications.[7]

Research

While at Caltech, he was involved in researching the genome of the Sindbis virus and the establishment of flaviviruses are their own family of viruses. The strain of yellow fever virus he used for this work was eventually used for the development of the yellow fever vaccine. This led him to his work in the related hepatitis C virus for which he has won many awards.[8]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Profile of Charles M. Rice". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108: 8541–8543. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105050108. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  2. ↑ "The Rockefeller University » Scientists & Research". rockefeller.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  3. ↑ "2016 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award: Hepatitis C replicon system and drug development". The Lasker Foundation. 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  4. ↑ http://www.fondsbailletlatour.com/media/misc_media/2016-CV_RiceC.pdf
  5. ↑ http://newswire.rockefeller.edu/2016/09/13/charles-m-rice-wins-lasker-award-for-groundbreaking-work-on-the-hepatitis-c-virus/
  6. ↑ http://www.fondsbailletlatour.com/media/misc_media/2016-CV_RiceC.pdf
  7. ↑ http://www.fondsbailletlatour.com/media/misc_media/2016-CV_RiceC.pdf
  8. ↑ http://www.pnas.org/content/108/21/8541.full


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