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3. Awards. National Institutes of Health CEO Award. Scientific career. Fields. Bioethics. Institutions. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. Christine Grady (born 1951/1952) is an American nurse and bioethicist who serves as the head of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center.
Kary Mullis. Kary Banks Mullis (December 28, 1944 – August 7, 2019) was an American biochemist. In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith [ 2 ] and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year.
Anthony Stephen Fauci (/ ˈ f aʊ tʃ i / FOW-chee; [5] born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and the chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. [6]
The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist. [1] While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's ...
Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory. This comes nearly four years after prompting the publication of the now infamous "Proximal Origin" paper that ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, faced heated questioning Monday from Republican lawmakers about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maurice Ralph Hilleman (August 30, 1919 – April 11, 2005) was a leading American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over 40 vaccines, an unparalleled record of productivity. [2][3][4][5][6] According to one estimate, his vaccines save nearly eight million lives each year. [3] He has been described as one of the most ...