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01-08-2018 | In honor of Marc van Regenmortel

Marc H. van Regenmortel

Author: Dion du Plessis

Published in: Archives of Virology | Issue 8/2018

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In the early 1970’s I found myself working at a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Cape Town. Soon, however, the charm of assaying injections and testing suppositories faded. Hopeful that a just-completed Molecular Biology building at the university would need to be populated, I went to see the head of Microbiology, Professor M. H. van Regenmortel. Almost the first thing I heard was that if I had any intention of pursuing a research career, I would have to become accustomed to eating sardines, not steak! This was the beginning of a career-long, on-off-on acquaintance with Marc, his science and his unique brand of immunophilosophy. …
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Title
Marc H. van Regenmortel
Author
Dion du Plessis
Publication date
01-08-2018
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Archives of Virology / Issue 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0304-8608
Electronic ISSN: 1432-8798
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-018-3935-2

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