Bernard Roizman ^People

Roizman received his Sc.D (1956) from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and remained on the faculty at Johns Hopkins until he came to The University ofChicago in 1965 as an Associate Professor of Microbiology. He is the JosephRegenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology in the Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology. He was elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1979, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991, Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 1992, Institute of Medicine, 2001, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004, Honorary Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1995, Foreign member, Chinese Academy of Engineering (Medicine), 2000. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Governors State University, 1984, University of Ferrara, Italy 1991, University of Paris, France, 1997, University of Valladolid, Spain, 2001, Professor (honoris causa) Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, China, 1985, Peking Union Medical College, China, 2002, Shandong University, 2003, Qingdao University 2003. He is the recipient of the first annual I N International Prize in Virology, 1988, .J Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, 1997, Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Disease Research, 1998. NIH Outstanding Investigator Award 1988-2001, NIH-NCI Merit award, 2003,