Bette Korber

Bette Korber
Korber with basket made for her by Zulu women at the orphanage she helped found
Alma materCalifornia State University Long Beach, California Institute of Technology
Known fordesigning AIDS vaccines using HIV virus database
AwardsRichard Feynman Award for Innovation 2018, Thomson Reuters Corporation 100 most influential scientists of decade 2014, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award 2004, Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow 2002, Distinguished Alumna of CSULB 2001, Elizabeth Glaser Scientist for pediatric AIDS 1997
Scientific career
Fieldscomputational biology, molecular biology, population genetics, virology
InstitutionsLos Alamos National Laboratory, Santa Fe Institute
Thesis (1988)
Doctoral advisorLeroy Hood, Iwona Stroynowski

Bette Korber is an American computational biologist focusing on the molecular biology and population genetics of the HIV virus that causes infection and eventually AIDS. She has contributed heavily to efforts to obtain an effective HIV vaccine.[1] She created a database at Los Alamos National Laboratory that has enabled her to design novel mosaic HIV vaccines, one of which is currently in human testing in Africa.[2] The database contains thousands of HIV genome sequences and related data.[2]

Korber is a scientist in theoretical biology and biophysics[1] at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, the Department of Energy's highest award for scientific achievement.[3] She has also received several other awards including the Elizabeth Glaser Award for pediatric AIDS research[4] and the Richard Feynman Award for Innovation.[5]

  1. ^ a b Korber, B.; Kuiken, C. (2002), Leitner, T. (ed.), "The HIV Databases: History, Design, and Function", The Molecular Epidemiology of Human Viruses, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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  3. ^ "The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award". US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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