Bernard roizman biography

Bernard Roizman, the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology and Chairman of the Viral Oncology Laboratory

By John Easton
Medical Center Public Affairs

Bernard Roizman listens to one of his student's questions in his Tuesday afternoon class, Viruses of Eukaryotic Cells.

Widely considered the world's foremost expert on the herpes simplex virus, Bernard Roizman, the Joseph Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Virology and Chairman of the Viral Oncology Laboratory, was surprised to learn that he won a Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Roizman has won scads of research awards and has trained many of the leading virologists around the world–but those were all graduate students or post-doctoral fellows, advanced students well on their way to becoming research scientists.

Roizman attributes the teaching skills he has developed to his research career and to a gradual accumulat