Biography

PhD, University of Cape Town ( 1961); International Fellow USPHS ,University of California , Berkeley (1965-1966) ; Professor of Virology at several Universities in South Africa and France ( 1967-1977 ) ; Director of CNRS Immunochemistry Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, France ( 1978-2001) .Since 2002 Emeritus CNRS Research Director in Strasbourg. Supervised the research work of 30 PhD students ; published 400 research and review papers and a dozen books in Immunochemistry and Virology ; co-edited the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Virology in 5 volumes published by Elsevier ( 2008 ). Served as Chair of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiologial Societies ( IUMS) and as Secretary General of IUMS ( 1987-1999) . Editor-in-Chief of Archives of Virology and J Molecular Recognition; Associate Editor of Advances in Virus Research , Analytical Biochemistry, Frontiers in Immunology , J Immunological Methods, and Bionomina. h-factor : 51

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Research Interest

Immunology,Virology,Analytical Biochemistry,Immunological Methods