Deborah Greenspan is a British-American scholar in dentistry, having been Professor and the Leland and Gladys Barber Distinguished Professor at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center,

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...

. She and her spouse and colleague

John S. Greenspan John S. Greenspan (born 7 January 1938, in London), is an academic dentist/scientist and university administrator. His degrees and diplomas include BSc, BDS, PhD, FRCPath, FDSRCS (Eng). He is the Director-Emeritus of the AIDS Research Institute at ...

were jointly the recipients of the UCSF Faculty Senate Campuswide Research Lecture Award in Translational Science in 2014, the first time in the history of UCSF that this honor was bestowed on School of Dentistry faculty members. She and John S. Greenspan also discovered

hairy leukoplakia Hairy leukoplakia is a white patch on the side of the tongue with a corrugated or hairy appearance. It is caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and occurs usually in persons who are immunocompromised, especially those with human immunodeficiency v ...

, which is a lesion, and in 1985 they identified a connection between it and

Epstein–Barr virus The Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), formally called ''Human gammaherpesvirus 4'', is one of the nine known human herpesvirus types in the herpes family, and is one of the most common viruses in humans. EBV is a double-stranded DNA virus. It is b ...

(EBV).

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