Eric Delwart, PhD, Senior investigator, Director of Molecular Virology, Blood System Research Institute, Adjunct Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, USA.
Eric graduated in Biochemistry and Genetics from Newcastle University followed by a MSc degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Geneva before joining Genentech Inc In South San Francisco to help clone cDNAs for FVIII, interferons, and ras oncogenes. After studying retrovirus envelope-receptor interactions, and developing first generation HIV vectors, he received his PhD in Oncology from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Eric did his postdoc at Stanford University developing a DNA heteroduplex mobility assay to subtype and analyze HIV quasispecies. The technology was taught in several WHO sponsored workshop. In 1994 he set up a laboratory at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, with an appointment at Rockefeller University, studying HIV evolution, anti-retroviral drug resistance, and T-cell repertoires. In 2000 he moved to the Blood Systems Research Institute with an appointment in the dept. of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His current research interests are the transmission and genetic diversity of blood borne viruses (HIV, HCV, HBV, WNV, ZIKV), viral zoonoses and One Health, and the genetic characterization of novel human and animal viruses using metagenomics.