Kenneth Ira Berns is an American virologist who is currently a distinguished professor emeritus at the department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. He is primarily known for his work on

adeno-associated virus Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are small viruses that infect humans and some other primate species. They belong to the genus ''Dependoparvovirus'', which in turn belongs to the family ''Parvoviridae''. They are small (approximately 26 nm in di ...

es (AAV), and his group was one of the first which showed the specificity of the integration of the AAV genomes into the cellular genome. He has been a member of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

since 1995. He was the president of the American Society for Virology (ASV) for the academic year 1988–1989 and the president of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for the academic year 1996–1997. He was elected in 2000 a fellow of the

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American virologists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of Florida faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science {{US-scientist-stub