Cancer Associated Viruses
This volume constitutes a comprehensive review of the different aspects of tumor virology 100 years after the discovery of the Rous-sarcoma virus. Its aim is to bring a greater focus on the contributions of viral agents to the development of cancer, and t
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Cancer Associated Viruses
Editor Erle S. Robertson Professor of Microbiology Director of the Tumor Virology Training Program Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-9999-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4614-0016-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0016-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011940811 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
In Memoriam
Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., D.Phil.
Baruch Samuel (Barry) Blumberg died suddenly on April 5, 2011 shortly after giving a presentation on “citizen science” at the NASA Lunar Science Institute in Ames, California. Barry’s talk concerned making spacecraft data available to the public so that ordinary people could contribute to its interpretation. That final talk reflected his deep belief that anyone who was willing to invest time and thought could have ideas that would lead to new understandings of research information. This volume is about viruses and cancer, but Barry was neither a virologist nor an oncologist. However, he contributed fundamentally to both. Barry began his research career as a medical student at Columbia University when he took an elective in v
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In Memoriam
Tropical Medicine in Suriname. There, he observed that filariasis was rampant, but that only some of the many infected people showed signs of disease. Suriname had many different ethnic groups and some of the diversity in responses was associated with ethnicity. That led him to wonder for the rest of his life why humans living in the same environment responded so differently to infectious agents. After an internship and assistant residency in medicine at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and a fellowship in rheumatology, Barry went to Oxford University to study biochemistry with Alexander Ogston. He was in the lab at the same time as Oliver Smithies who also went on to win a Nobel Prize. In England, he was exposed to the history of scientific discovery and began formulating his scientific ideas. It was there that he found his scientific inspiration in the lives and work of th
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