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June Osborn
Dr. June E. Osborn has served as an expert advisor on numerous urgent medical and health issues that include infectious diseases and their vaccines, virology, and public health policy as well as publishing research on these subjects. Osborn currently works on public health policy with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, The World Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, The National Institutes of Health, and Food and Drug Administration, The Food and Drug Administration. Early life June E. Osborn was born in Endicott, New York on May 28, 1937 to Leslie Varmus and Dora Wrist. The family moved to Madison, Wisconsin in 1950 due to her father being offered a job position as the director of the state's mental hygiene department and professor of psychiatry at University of Wisconsin–Madison, The University of Wisconsin. Shortly after moving Osborn's mother began a second career as a psychiatric social worker. Upon studying chemistry i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virology
Virology is the Scientific method, scientific study of biological viruses. It is a subfield of microbiology that focuses on their detection, structure, classification and evolution, their methods of infection and exploitation of host (biology), host cell (biology), cells for reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use in research and therapy. The identification of the causative agent of tobacco mosaic disease (TMV) as a novel pathogen by Martinus Beijerinck (1898) is now acknowledged as being the history of virology, official beginning of the field of virology as a discipline distinct from bacteriology. He realized the source was neither a bacterial nor a fungal infection, but something completely different. Beijerinck used the word "virus" to describe the mysterious agent in his 'contagium vivum fluidum' ('contagious living fluid'). Rosalind Franklin proposed the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
