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About Marc H. V. van Regenmortel
- Marc Hubert Victor van Regenmortel (born 6 December 1934) is a Belgian virologist known for his work on virus classification.
- After living in Brussels for the first two decades of his life, he moved to South Africa, where he earned his Ph.D.
- from the University of Cape Town in 1961.
- He was Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique Immunochemistry Laboratory at the University of Strasbourg from 1978 to 2001.
- He was president of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses from 1996 to 2002.
- He was the editor-in-chief of the Archives of Virology for twenty years prior to retiring in 2018.
- He continues to serve as editor-in-chief of both the Journal of Molecular Recognition and the Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research.
- In June 2018, a symposium was held in his honor to mark his retirement as editor-in-chief of Archives of Virology.
- The symposium was organized by Springer Nature and chaired by Tim Skern, van Regenmortel's successor as the journal's editor-in-chief.
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