Donald "Don" Emil Ganem (born September 23, 1950) is an American physician, virologist, professor emeritus of microbiology and medicine, and former global head of infectious disease research at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR).

Biography

Ganem graduated in 1968 from Phillips Academy Andover and in 1972 from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

. After two years of medical school, he took an 18-month leave of absence to work on SV40 DNA replication with George Fareed. In 1977 Ganem graduated with an M.D. from

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. At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women's Hospital) he was a resident and chief resident in internal medicine. At the

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 ...

(UCSF) he did subspecialty training in infectious diseases, working in Harold Varmus's laboratory. At UCSF he became a faculty member in 1982 and eventually Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Medicine. In 1991 he also became an investigator of the

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. At UCSF Ganem was part of a team, including David Wang and Joseph L. DeRisi, that developed a highly parallel viral screening system using DNA microarrays to detect and genotype viral pathogens. Ganem and co-workers also elucidated the functional significance of SV40-encoded microRNAs in viral infection. With Joseph L. DeRisi and six other researchers, Ganem found four novel viruses that infect honey bees. Ganem practices internal medicine in San Francisco. On May 20, 1985, in Alameda County he married Peggy S. Weintrub, a pediatrician. They have two daughters, Alison Marjorie (born 1989) and Natalie Katherine (born 1990). Both daughters are lawyers.

Awards and honors

* 2003 — Member of the

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(now renamed the National Academy of Medicine) * 2004 — Fellow of the

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* 2006–2007 — President of the American Society for Virology * 2010 — Member of the

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* 2016 — UCSF Medal

References

External links

* (online links to many of Ganem's publications) * Don Ganem (Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research) 4 Part Lecture, 2010, iBiology ** ** ** ** * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ganem, Donald American virologists American immunologists 20th-century American physicians 21st-century American physicians Phillips Academy alumni Harvard College alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Members of the National Academy of Medicine Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Howard Hughes Medical Investigators UCSF School of Medicine faculty Novartis people American people of Lebanese descent 1950 births Living people