Peter Dueberg

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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

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