Dorothy H. Crawford

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

is professor of

medical microbiology Medical microbiology, the large subset of microbiology that is applied to medicine, is a branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases. In addition, this field of science studies various ...

and assistant principal for public understanding of medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She has written a number of books on viruses.

Selected publications

* ''The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. * ''Virus Hunt''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. * ''Deadly Companions''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018. * ''Viruses: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018.

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Crawford talking about The hunt for the origins of HIV.
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