Rice is an American virologist whose main area of research is hepatitis C virus.
He is a professor of virology at the Rockefeller University.
He received the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Ralf F.
W.
Bartenschlager and Michael J.
Sofia.Rice is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences and was president of the American Society for Virology from 2002 to 2003.