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Scientific Advisory Board Dr. Block is the volunteer President and Director for the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research, and the Hepatitis B Foundation; Director, Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology Research; and Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine. After learning of a moving
personal story, Dr. Dr. Block was the Founder and
Director of the Jefferson
Dr. Block entered college at
age 14 to study physics at the State University of New York. He
entered the life sciences as a graduate and postdoctoral student
at the State University of New York and His other major discovery in antiviral research is the development of a novel microorganism based assay for antiviral drugs, called “MOBA”. In 1990, Dr. Block received the WW Smith award for MOBA, which is patented and currently used, or in development to search for many antiviral agents. With others, in 1979, he also discovered the phenomenon called “co-transformation” of mammalian cells, which has served as the basis for introducing foreign DNA into cultured cells and is universally used in research. In 1998, he was named
“Scientist of the Year” by the American Liver Foundation ( Dr. Block serves on the Board
of Directors of the Hepatitis B Foundation, Institute for
Hepatitis and Virus Research, Delaware Valley Chapter of the
American Liver Foundation, and numerous other editorial and
professional boards. He serves on NIH study sections; has been
coordinator of several national and international meetings
focusing on hepatitis; elected Fellow, International Union
Against Cancer; elected Fellow, The Glycobiology Institute, University
of http://www.drexelmed.edu/med/microbiology_immunology/faculty/block.html
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