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About Thomas C. Merigan
- Thomas Charles Merigan is an American virologist and the George E.
- and Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine, Emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- Merigan's research focused on viral pathogenesis, interferon, antiviral drugs and later on HIV/AIDS.
- He is also credited with helping to develop the use of interferons as antiviral and antitumor therapies.
- Merigan joined the Stanford faculty in 1963, was elected to the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) in 1980, and assumed emeritus status at Stanford in 2007.
- In 2004 he was also identified as one of the 250 most cited investigators in clinical medicine over the last 20 years by the Institute for Scientific Information.
- Approx.
- 28,000 citations so far.
- He had over 90 postdoctoral fellows, students and visiting scientists with whom he published 576 papers, 24 books and symposia, and held 11 US patents.
- He was a board member of 28 journals and a member of 23 learned societies.
- He told his life story in a book entitled Pioneering Viral Therapy,a Life in Academic Medicine, published by Amazon/Kindle/CreateSpace in 2017.
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