The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-05
"for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"
Affiliations:
- Rockefeller University – New York, NY, USA
Charles M. Rice
Born: 1952-08-25 in Sacramento, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American virologist
Biography
Charles Moen Rice is an American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate whose main area of research is the hepatitis C virus. He is a professor of virology at the Rockefeller University and an adjunct professor at Cornell University and Washington University School of Medicine. At the time of the award he was a faculty at Rockefeller.