PhD Microbiology
38+ years’ experienceUnited States

About

This editor has over 38 years of experience in writing and editing scientific documents, including original peer-reviewed research papers, book chapters and technical articles. He has authored and reviewed papers published in high impact journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA), the Journal of Virology, Virology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research, and Oncogene. He has received two awards: “Federal Technology Transfer Award” from the National Cancer Institute, USA and “Director’s Award” from the National Institutes of Health, USA.

Areas of expertise

General biochemistry, Animal biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Cancer research, Cell biology, Embryology, Enzymology, General/Molecular pathology, Genetic engineering, Genomics, Pharmaceutical microbiology, Food microbiology, Parasitology, Virology, Bacteriology, Medical microbiology, Microbial physiology, Molecular biology, Cellular neuroscience, Neurosciences, Clinical pathology, Hematopathology, Molecular pathology, Histopathology, Proteomics/Protein studies, Veterinary sciences, Oncology

Education

PhD, Microbiology, University of California, USA
BA, Bacteriology (Highest Honors), University of California, USA

Peer-review experience

The Methylation of Salmonella Typhimurium Flagellin. - Published in the Journal of Bacteriology.

Comparative Biochemical and Immunological Studies of Bacterial Glutamine Synthetases. - Published in the Journal of Bacteriology.

Immunological Properties of Two Polypeptides of Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus. - Published in the Journal of Virology.

A Thermolabile Reverse Transcriptase of a Mammalian Leukemia Virus Mutant Temperature Sensitive in Its Replication and Sarcoma Virus Helper Functions. - Published in the Journal of Virology.

Terminal Nucleotide Sequences of Mammalian Type C Helper Viruses Are Conserved in the Genomes of Replication-Defective Mammalian Transforming Viruses. - Published in the Journal of Virology.

Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of the BALB-C Murine Sarcoma Virus Transforming Gene. - Published in the Journal of Virology.

Development of an Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Equine Infectious Anemia Virus Detection Using Recombinant Pr55gag. - Published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Certificates and awards

Federal Technology Transfer Award, National Cancer Institute
Director’s Award, National Institutes of Health
Merit Award, National Institutes of Health

Work experience

Director, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
Acting Chief, National Cancer Institute
Deputy Chief, National Cancer Institute
Chief, National Cancer Institute
Research Microbiologist, National Cancer Institute