UCSF's DeRisi and Ganem Cited as "Modern-Day Virus Hunters"

UCSF's Joe DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, both HHMI Investigators, have teamed up to explore the possible role of viruses in diseases ranging from respiratory ailments to prostate cancer - and they've made notable findings. The two HHMI Investigators are in a collaboration that UCSF Chancellor and Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, MD, describes as "bench to bedside at its very best." The team is using a microarray that DeRisi and his then-postdoctoral fellow David Wang, PhD, developed in 2003. The tool is designed to detect all known - and even unknown - viruses. In March 2003, DeRisi and Wang used the microarray to provide the confirming evidence that SARS was a novel form of coronavirus. DeRisi and Ganem are featured as "modern-day virus hunters" in the August issue of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin. Links: "Modern-Day Virus Hunters: Aided by Microarrays, An Inspired Partnership Could Finish the Job Started by Past Pioneers"
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin, August 2006
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