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Peter Duesberg Ph.D. is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley, a pioneer in retrovirus research, the first scientist to isolate a cancer gene, member of the U.S. National Academic of Sciences, and recipient of the Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health. (Biography)
Peter H. Duesberg Ph.D. is a Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1968-1970 he demonstrated that influenza virus has a segmented genome. This would explain its unique ability to form recombinants by reassortment of subgenomic segments. He isolated the first cancer gene through his work on retroviruses in 1970, and mapped the genetic structure of these viruses. This, and his subsequent work in the same field, resulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. He is also the recipient of a seven-year Outstanding Investigator Grant from the National Institutes of Health. On the basis of his experience with retroviruses, Duesberg has challenged the virus-AIDS hypothesis in the pages of such journals as Cancer Research, Lancet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, Nature, Journal of AIDS, AIDS Forschung, Biomedicine and Pharmacotherpeutics, New England Journal of Medicine and Research in Immunology. He has instead proposed the hypothesis that the various AIDS diseases are bought on by the long-term consumption of recreational drugs and AZT, which is prescribed to prevent or treat AIDS.
Born:
December 2nd 1936
Birthplace:
Germany
Parents:
Mother: Hilde Saettele, MD., Father: Richard Duesberg, Prof. of Internal Medicine.
Education:
University of Wurzburg, Germany 1956-1958: Vordiplom (Chemistry)
University of Basel, Switzerland 1958-1959
University of Munich, Germany 1959-1961: Diplom (Chemistry)
University of Frankfurt, Germany 1961-1963: Ph.D. (Chemistry)
Research & Professional Experience:
Max Planck Institute for Virus Research, Tubingen Germany
1963: postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Molecular Biology and Virus Laboratory; since 1959 Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley CA
1964: Assistant research Virologist and Postdoctoral Fellow
1968: Assistant Professor in Residence and Research Biochemist
1970: Assistant Professor
1971: Associate Professor
1973 to present Professor
Honors:
1969: Merck Award
1971: California Scientist of the Year Award
1981: First Annual American Medical Centre Oncology Award
1986: Outstanding Investigator Award National Institute of Health
1986: Elected National Academy of Sciences
1986-1987: Fogarty Scholar-in-Residence at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD
1988: Wissenschaftspreis, Hannover Germany
1988: Lichtfield Lecturer, Oxford England
1990: C.J. Watson Lecturer, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis MN
1992: Fisher Distinguished Professor, University of North Texas, Denton TX
1992: Shaffer Alumni Lecturer, Tulane University, New Orleans LA
Articles:
'Retroviruses as Carcinogens and Pathogens; Expectations and Reality' (1987)
'Virus Hunting' (book review) (1991)
'AIDS Epidemiology; Inconsistencies with HIV and with Infectious Disease' (1991)
'Can Alternative Hypothesis Survive In This Era of Megaprojects?' (1991)
'Falsification and Progress' (1992)
'AIDS Acquired by Drug Consumption and Other Noncontagious Risk Factors' (1992)
'The Enigma of Slow Viruses' (book review) (1993)
'Can Epidemiology Determine Whether Drugs or HIV Causes AIDS' (1993)
'Infectious AIDS Stretching the Germ Theory Beyond Its Limits' (1994)
'Foreign-Protein-Mediated Immunodeficiency in Hemophiliacs...' (1995)
'The SMON Fiasco' (1996)
'How Much Longer Can We Afford The AIDS Virus Monopoly' (1996)
'The Drug-AIDS Hypothesis' (1997)
'The AIDS Dilemma: Drug diseases blamed on a passenger virus' (1999)
'The African AIDS Epidemic' (2000)
'Drug Holidays' (2000)
'AIDS Since 1984: No evidence for a new, viral epidemic - not even in Africa' (2011)