Peter Palese
Peter Palese | |
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Born | 15 April 1944 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Vienna |
Awards | Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000) Robert Koch Prize (2006) European Virology Award (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Microbiology Virology |
Institutions | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Tuppy |
Doctoral students | Vincent Racaniello |
Peter Palese is a United States microbiologist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City,[1] and an expert in the field of RNA viruses.[2]
Palese built "the first genetic maps for influenza A, B and C viruses, identified the function of several viral genes, ...defined the mechanism of neuraminidase inhibitors (which are now FDA-approved antivirals)" and "pioneered the field of reverse genetics for negative-strand RNA viruses".[3] Furtherance of this technique has been used by Palese and his colleagues in reconstructing and studying the pathogenicity of the extinct but deadly 1918 pandemic influenza virus.[4] Reverse genetics also assist in the development of new flu vaccines.
Palese is the author of multiple book chapters and more than 400 scientific publications. He is on the editorial board for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). He has been awarded multiple patents on viral vaccines and antivirals.[5]
Biography
His primary schooling consisted of Greek and Latin, and very little modern science.[6] He developed his interest in science later, at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1969 and his M.S. in pharmacy in 1970. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology from 1970 until 1971, when he joined the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as assistant professor. In 1976 he was visiting associate professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. In 1987 he was named Chairman of the Department of Microbiology of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[1][7]
When cells are infected by viruses, they respond with antiviral interferons. Palese and Adolfo García-Sastre showed that most negative-strand RNA viruses counteract that antiviral response with protein antagonists to interferons. His work on "fundamental questions concerning the genetic make-up and biology of viruses" and virus-host interactions "uses molecular biological techniques to understand how viruses replicate and how they interact with cells to cause disease in their hosts", with emphasis on "the study of RNA viruses, including influenza, paramyxo and corona (SARS) viruses".[1][8] He developed a new animal model (the guinea pig) for studying the transmission of influenza viruses.[9]
Honors and awards
Palese is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2012), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2002) and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2006). He has served the presidencies of the Harvey Society from 2003 to 2004 and the American Society of Virology from 2005 to 2006. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an Honorary Doctorate from both Baylor College of Medicine (2014) and McMaster University (2016).
- Robert Koch Prize (2006).[7][10]
- Charles C. Shepard Science Award (2006 and 2008).[11]
- Wilhelm Exner Medal (2007).[12]
- European Virology Award (EVA) (2010).[13]
- Sanofi – Institut Pasteur Award (2012).
- Beijerinck Virology Prize from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015).[14]
- Maurice Hilleman/Merck Award from American Society for Microbiology (2016).[15]
Publications
Partial List:
- Palese, P. (1977). "The genes of influenza virus". Cell. 10 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(77)90133-7. PMID 837439. S2CID 6562438.
- Buonagurio, D. A.; Nakada, S.; Parvin, J. D.; Krystal, M.; Palese, P.; Fitch, W. M. (1986). "Evolution of human influenza a viruses over 50 years: Rapid, uniform rate of change in NS gene". Science. 232 (4753): 980–982. Bibcode:1986Sci...232..980B. doi:10.1126/science.2939560. PMID 2939560.
- Luytjes, W.; Krystal, M.; Enami, M.; Parvin, J. D.; Palese, P. (1989). "Amplification, expression, and packaging of foreign gene by influenza virus". Cell. 59 (6): 1107–1113. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(89)90766-6. PMID 2598262. S2CID 251545.
- Enami, M.; Luytjes, W.; Krystal, M.; Palese, P. (1990). "Introduction of site-specific mutations into the genome of influenza virus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 87 (10): 3802–3805. Bibcode:1990PNAS...87.3802E. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.10.3802. PMC 53991. PMID 2339122.
- Fitch, W. M.; Leiter, J. M.; Li, X. Q.; Palese, P. (1991). "Positive Darwinian evolution in human influenza a viruses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 88 (10): 4270–4274. Bibcode:1991PNAS...88.4270F. doi:10.1073/pnas.88.10.4270. PMC 51640. PMID 1840695.
- García-Sastre, A.; Egorov, A.; Matassov, D.; Brandt, S.; Levy, D. E.; Durbin, J. E.; Palese, P.; Muster, T. (1998). "Influenza a virus lacking the NS1 gene replicates in interferon-deficient systems". Virology. 252 (2): 324–330. doi:10.1006/viro.1998.9508. PMID 9878611.
- Fodor, E.; Devenish, L.; Engelhardt, O. G.; Palese, P.; Brownlee, G. G.; García-Sastre, A. (1999). "Rescue of Influenza a Virus from Recombinant DNA". Journal of Virology. 73 (11): 9679–9682. doi:10.1128/JVI.73.11.9679-9682.1999. PMC 113010. PMID 10516084.
- Talon, J.; Salvatore, M.; O'Neill, R. E.; Nakaya, Y.; Zheng, H.; Muster, T.; García-Sastre, A.; Palese, P. (2000). "Influenza a and B viruses expressing altered NS1 proteins: A vaccine approach". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97 (8): 4309–4314. Bibcode:2000PNAS...97.4309T. doi:10.1073/pnas.070525997. PMC 18238. PMID 10725408.
- Tumpey, T. M.; Basler, C. F.; Aguilar, P. V.; Zeng, H.; Solórzano, A.; Swayne, D. E.; Cox, N. J.; Katz, J. M.; Taubenberger, J. K.; Palese, P.; García-Sastre, A. (2005). "Characterization of the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Virus". Science. 310 (5745): 77–80. Bibcode:2005Sci...310...77T. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.418.9059. doi:10.1126/science.1119392. PMID 16210530. S2CID 14773861.
- Lowen, A. C.; Mubareka, S.; Tumpey, T. M.; García-Sastre, A.; Palese, P. (2006). "The guinea pig as a transmission model for human influenza viruses". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (26): 9988–9992. Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.9988L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604157103. PMC 1502566. PMID 16785447.
- Zamarin, D.; Ortigoza, M. B.; Palese, P. (2006). "Influenza a Virus PB1-F2 Protein Contributes to Viral Pathogenesis in Mice". Journal of Virology. 80 (16): 7976–7983. doi:10.1128/JVI.00415-06. PMC 1563817. PMID 16873254.
- König, R.; Stertz, S.; Zhou, Y.; Inoue, A.; Hoffmann, H. -H.; Bhattacharyya, S.; Alamares, J. G.; Tscherne, D. M.; Ortigoza, M. B.; Liang, Y.; Gao, Q.; Andrews, S. E.; Bandyopadhyay, S.; De Jesus, P.; Tu, B. P.; Pache, L.; Shih, C.; Orth, A.; Bonamy, G.; Miraglia, L.; Ideker, T.; García-Sastre, A.; Young, J. A. T.; Palese, P.; Shaw, M. L.; Chanda, S. K. (2010). "Human Host Factors Required for Influenza Virus Replication". Nature. 463 (7282): 813–817. Bibcode:2010Natur.463..813K. doi:10.1038/nature08699. PMC 2862546. PMID 20027183.
- Wang, T. T.; Tan, G. S.; Hai, R.; Pica, N.; Petersen, E.; Moran, T. M.; Palese, P. (2010). m. Fouchier, Ron A. (ed.). "Broadly Protective Monoclonal Antibodies against H3 Influenza Viruses following Sequential Immunization with Different Hemagglutinins". PLOS Pathogens. 6 (2): e1000796. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1000796. PMC 2829068. PMID 20195520.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - Steel, J.; Lowen, A. C.; Wang, T. T.; Yondola, M.; Gao, Q.; Haye, K.; Garcia-Sastre, A.; Palese, P. (2010). "Influenza Virus Vaccine Based on the Conserved Hemagglutinin Stalk Domain". mBio. 1 (1): e00018–e00010. doi:10.1128/mBio.00018-10. PMC 2912658. PMID 20689752.
- Wang, T. T.; Tan, G. S.; Hai, R.; Pica, N.; Ngai, L.; Ekiert, D. C.; Wilson, I. A.; Garcia-Sastre, A.; Moran, T. M.; Palese, P. (2010). "Vaccination with a synthetic peptide from the influenza virus hemagglutinin provides protection against distinct viral subtypes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (44): 18979–18984. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10718979W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1013387107. PMC 2973924. PMID 20956293.
- Palese, P. (2012). "Don't censor life-saving science". Nature. 481 (7380): 115. Bibcode:2012Natur.481..115P. doi:10.1038/481115a. PMID 22237069.
References
- ^ a b c "Mount Sinai School of Medicine – Peter Palese". Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ^ Tyson, Peter (September 9, 2009). "The Evolving Flu". NOVA. PBS.org. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ^ "Mount Sinai School of Medicine – Meet the Chair". Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ Lipchitz, Rebecca (September 28, 2005). "Lessons learned from the influenza pandemic of 1918". BU Today. Boston University. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ^ "Patentdocs". Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ^ TWiV 396: Influenza viruses with Peter Palese, July 3, 2016.
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External links
- The Mount Sinai Hospital homepage
- The Mount Sinai School of Medicine homepage
- The Palese Laboratory at the Mount Sinai Medical Center
- Swine flu discussion with Dr. Peter Palese on Give and Take with Julie Menin
- A roundtable discussion about the avian flu. Laurie Garrett, Harvey V. Fineberg, Peter Palese and Paul Nurse on Charlie Rose, March 22, 2008.
- Swine Flu: H1N1 Interview with Dr. Peter Palese on 60 Minutes
- TWiV 396: Influenza viruses with Peter Palese, July 3, 2016. Interview with Vincent Racaniello on his career in virology, from early work on neuraminidases to universal influenza virus vaccines.
- American virologists
- Influenza researchers
- Living people
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai faculty
- University of Vienna alumni
- Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 1944 births
- American microbiologists
- Members of the National Academy of Medicine