| January 3, 2001
Renowned HIV/AIDS
Researcher Named Chairman of the Department of Microbiology
at Penn's School of Medicine
Robert W. Doms, MD, PhD,
a nationally recognized researcher in the study of HIV/AIDS,
has been named chairman of the Department of Microbiology
at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Director of pathogenesis at Penn's interdisciplinary
Center for AIDS Research and an Associate Professor
of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the medical
school, Doms has led significant discoveries in the
way the AIDS virus gains entry to cells. His team of
scientists discovered that in the earliest stages of
HIV infection, a second set of cell receptor molecules
-- known as cofactors -- must be present for the disease
to develop.
In announcing the appointment, Arthur K. Asbury, MD,
Interim Dean of the School of Medicine, said he believes
the medical community can expect "many more scientific
contributions" from Doms through the course of his career.
A member of the American Society for Clinical Research,
Doms has published 40 research papers in the past eight
years. He won the Burroughs Wellcome Award for Translational
Research in 1998. The same year, he received the Stanley
N. Cohen Biomedical Research Award, one of the highest
honors bestowed by Penn's School of Medicine. In 1999,
he was one of four scientists who won the Elizabeth
Glaser Scientist Award, which is the only research award
devoted exclusively to work in pediatric HIV/AIDS.
Doms earned his MD and PhD in cell biology from Yale
University and served his residency at the National
Institutes of Health following work as a post doctoral
fellow at Yale and the NIH. He came to Penn in 1992
as an assistant professor in pathology and laboratory
medicine and was promoted to associate professor six
years later.
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