tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The 2008 Retrovirology Prize: Ben Berkhout and his RNA world"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: "The 2008 Retrovirology Prize: Ben Berkhout and his RNA world. | Retrovirology BioMed Central Open Access Editorial The 2008 Retrovirology Prize Ben Berkhout and his RNA world Kuan-Teh Jeang Address the National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kjeang@ Published II December 2008 Retrovirology 2008 5 II3 doi I742-4690-5- II3 Received 9 December 2008 Accepted II December 2008 This article is available from http content 5 I I I3 2008 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Ben Berkhout wins the 2008 Retrovirology Prize. Editorial Four years ago Retrovirology inaugurated an annual prize to recognize the achievements of a deserving retrovirolo-gist 1 . The Prize is supported in part by the Ming K. Jeang Foundation a philanthropic charity based in Houston Texas which has provided for scholarships at Houston schools at the University of Arizona and at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Previous winners of the Retrovirology Prize include Stephen Goff 2 Joseph Sodroski 3 and Karen Beemon 4 . A goal of the Retrovi-rology Prize is to identify an outstanding mid-career scientist who is close to the peak of his her productivity and who is expected to have many future years of high achievement. For 2008 the Editors of Retrovirology selected Ben Berkhout as the recipient of the Retrovirology Prize Figure 1 . Dr. Berkhout is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Virology at the Academic Medical Center AMC of the University of Amsterdam the Netherlands. In the late 1980s he was instrumental in changing the paradigm of thinking on gene regulation. At a time when the focus in eukaryotic transcription was on DNA-enhanc-ers and DNA-binding proteins Berkhout emerged to propose HIV-1 TAR .