Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 26

Symposium honors birthday of infectious
disease expert Dr. I. George Miller

A symposium honoring the 70th birthday of Yale researcher Dr. I. George Miller will take place Friday-Saturday, April 27-28.

Titled "Pathogenesis and Prevention," the symposium is being presented by students, fellows, colleagues and friends of Miller, who is the John F. Enders Professor of Pediatrics and professor of epidemiology and public health and of molecular biophysics and biochemistry.

On Friday, there will be two panels: "Molecular Mechanisms of Disease" at 1 p.m. and "Disease Pathogenesis in Immunodeficient Hosts" at 3 p.m. On Saturday, there will be three panels: "Molecular Biology of Oncogenic Viruses" at 9 a.m., "Prevention of Infectious Diseases" at 11:20 a.m. and "Clinical Epidemiology" at 3 p.m. The event will conclude with remarks from Miller. All events will take place in Rm. 216 of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St. The symposium is free and open to the public. A schedule is available online at http://info.med.yale.edu/pediat/pdf/gm70poster.pdf.

Miller joined the Yale faculty in 1969 and is also chief of the Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he has trained more than 30 fellows in his specialty of infectious diseases.

For the past 40 years, Miller has been studying the molecular biology of two human oncogenic viruses of the herpes virus family: the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpes virus. He was the first to show that a human virus can cause tumors in primates. Experiments he conducted at Yale in the 1960s demonstrated that EBV could cause lymphoma in cotton-top marmosets. He also discovered that the virus was very effective at changing normal human lymphocytes into cells with properties of cancer cells in culture.

His numerous honors include three MERIT Awards from the National Institutes of Health, the Squibb Award and the Enders Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America, a Howard Hughes Investigatorship and a Scholar Award from the American Cancer Society. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology.

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