Daniel W. Bradley (born 13 July 1941) is an important American virologist who, along with
Michael Houghton,
Qui-Lim Choo and
George Kuo at
Chiron Corporation, worked to help isolate the
Hepatitis C virus in 1989.
He graduated from
San José State University in 1964 before going on to receive a master's degree in biochemistry from the
University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...
and a doctorate from the
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory.
T ...
. He worked for the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgi ...
starting in 1971. He received the
Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award The Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award is a scientific award given by the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) to scientists with "an international reputation in transfusion medicine or cellular therapies" "whose original research resulted in an ...
of the
American Association of Blood Banks in 1992, the
Robert Koch Prize
The Robert Koch Medal and Award are two prizes awarded annually by the German for excellence in the biomedical sciences. These awards grew out of early attempts by German physician Robert Koch to generate funding to support his research into the ...
in 1993, and the
Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2013.
Gairdner Foundation page
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References
1941 births
Living people
American virologists
San Jose State University alumni
University of California alumni
University of Arizona alumni
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