Professor
Robert Andrew Lamb
(
–
)
1950
2023
Northwestern University
;
Evanston, IL
Biochemist; Virologist
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Elected
2007
Authority on genome organization, expression and protein function of influenza virus and paramyxoviruses. Identified many unexpected protein coding strategies and elucidated the functional role of viral proteins in their cellular function including the influenza virus proton-selective ion channel and the mechanistic basis of paramyxovirus-mediated membrane fusion.
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