Purcell Honored by Hepatitis Foundation
Dr. Robert H. Purcell
was recently honored with the Scientific
Research Achievement Award by the Hepatitis Foundation
International for outstanding contributions to the understanding of
viral hepatitis. He heads the hepatitis viruses section of NIAID's
Laboratory of Infectious Diseases. He has dedicated his research
career to the discovery, identification and characterization of various
hepatitis viruses such as hepatitis A, D and E, and to the
development of diagnostic tests, treatments and preventive measures
for hepatitis. Purcell and others were key in the development of the
hepatitis A vaccine used worldwide and have also developed a
hepatitis E vaccine now in clinical trials.
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