Charles M. Rice | |
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.jpg) Rice in 2016 | |
| Born | Charles Moen Rice August 25, 1952 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Davis (BS) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
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| Thesis | Studies on the Structural Proteins of Sindbis Virus (1981) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Strauss |
| Website | www |
Charles Moen Rice (born August 25, 1952) is an American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate whose main area of research is the hepatitis C virus. He is a professor of virology at the Rockefeller University in New York City and an adjunct professor at Cornell University and Washington University School of Medicine. At the time of the award he was a faculty at Rockefeller.
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. He received the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Ralf F. W. Bartenschlager and Michael J. Sofia.[1][2] Along with Michael Houghton and Harvey J. Alter, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus."[3][4]
- ^ "The Rockefeller University » Scientists & Research". rockefeller.edu. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
- ^ "2016 Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award: Hepatitis C replicon system and drug development". The Lasker Foundation. 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
- ^ "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved October 5, 2020.
- ^ Wu, Katherine J.; Victor, Daniel (October 6, 2020). "Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 7, 2020.