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Raul Andino | |
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Born | 1957 |
Awards | Beijerinck Virology Prize (2017) [1] |
Academic background | |
Academic advisors | David Baltimore |
Academic work | |
Doctoral students | Shane Crotty (2001) |
Raul Andino is a virologist and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. [2] He is noted for leading a team of researchers that developed the first new oral polio vaccine in 50 years. [3]
Raul Andino was born in 1957 [1] in Argentina. [4] He completed his master's degree in Biology in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1986, both at the University of Buenos Aires. [2]
Andino emigrated to the United States in the 1980s. [4] He then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher first at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 1986 to 1991, then at Rockefeller University in the lab of David Baltimore from 1991 to 1992. [2] He then joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor. [2] He was promoted to associate professor in 1999, then full professor in 2003. [2]
Raul Andino's research has long focused on poliovirus. Together with Andrew Macadam, Andino redesigned the polio vaccine so it can stop the virus from re-evolving. [5] [6] His research has expanded to other enteroviruses and host defenses against other RNA viruses. [1] His group has also had a long-standing interest in RNA interference as an antiviral defense, and in the dynamics of viral evolution during infection and transmission. [1]
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Raul Andino | |
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Born | 1957 |
Awards | Beijerinck Virology Prize (2017) [1] |
Academic background | |
Academic advisors | David Baltimore |
Academic work | |
Doctoral students | Shane Crotty (2001) |
Raul Andino is a virologist and professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. [2] He is noted for leading a team of researchers that developed the first new oral polio vaccine in 50 years. [3]
Raul Andino was born in 1957 [1] in Argentina. [4] He completed his master's degree in Biology in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1986, both at the University of Buenos Aires. [2]
Andino emigrated to the United States in the 1980s. [4] He then went on to work as a postdoctoral researcher first at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 1986 to 1991, then at Rockefeller University in the lab of David Baltimore from 1991 to 1992. [2] He then joined the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco as an assistant professor. [2] He was promoted to associate professor in 1999, then full professor in 2003. [2]
Raul Andino's research has long focused on poliovirus. Together with Andrew Macadam, Andino redesigned the polio vaccine so it can stop the virus from re-evolving. [5] [6] His research has expanded to other enteroviruses and host defenses against other RNA viruses. [1] His group has also had a long-standing interest in RNA interference as an antiviral defense, and in the dynamics of viral evolution during infection and transmission. [1]