Herpesvirus Research at Stanford

Ann Arvin
Varicella Zoster Virus (pathogenesis and host response)

Ed Mocarski, Jr.
Cytomegalovirus (gene regulation, DNA replication, pathogenesis, and latency)

Charles Prober
Herpes Simplex Virus (epidemiology, pathophysiology, prevention, and treatment of (HSV and other) infections)

Other Herpesvirus Researchers
(but not all herpesvirus scientists. . .there are a lot of them out there!)

Bernard Roizman at U. Chicago (wrote The Human Herpesviruses and chapter in Fields' Virology; also, with Furlong, created the term "tegument" to describe the strucutres between the capsid and envelope; currently studying the mechanism and regulation of viral gene expression and latency)

Jeff Cohen at NIH (studies molecular genetics and pathogenesis, particularly in VZV and EBV)

Charles Grose at U. Iowa (studies molecular biology of VZV, especially its glycoproteins and protein kinases)

Ulrich H. Koszinowski (CMV and interference with MHC-I presentation)

Stephen Strauss at NIH (studies molecular biology and pathogenesis of herpesvirus infections; also conducts various clinical studies, particularly concerning antiviral drugs)

Michiaki Takahashi (developed the Oka strain VZV vaccine in Japan)

Hidde Ploegh at Cambridge (the MHC guru--studies the synthesis and antigen-presentation pathways of MHC)

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