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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2008 - ASM Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology DNA Viruses
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1979 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Bernard Roizman is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has contributed to multiple research areas within medicine and biochemistry. Their work spans fields such as molecular biology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases, with a primary focus on viral infections and their broader implications in public health.

Roizman's research topics include zoonotic diseases and public health, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, viral infections and outbreaks research, extracellular vesicles in disease, herpesvirus infections and treatments, RNA regulation and disease, and respiratory viral infections research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Roizman include:

  • Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19, 2020, The Lancet
  • hnRNPA2B1 Associated with Recruitment of RNA into Exosomes Plays a Key Role in Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Release from Infected Cells, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • The Story behind the Science: On the discovery of respiratory syncytial virus, 2025, mBio

Frequent publication venues where Roizman's work appears include The Lancet, Journal of Virology, and mBio.

Among frequent coauthors are Charles H. Calisher, Dennis Carroll, Rita R. Colwell, Ronald B Corley, and Peter Daszak.

Throughout their career, Roizman has received several recognitions in the scientific community. These include election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1979, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology with a citation for DNA Viruses in 1992, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2001, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004, the ASM Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2008, and they were named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Regulation of Herpesvirus Macromolecular Synthesis I. Cascade Regulation of the Synthesis of Three Groups of Viral Proteins

    Robert W. Honess;Bernard Roizman

  • Herpes simplex virus infections

    Richard J Whitley;Bernard Roizman

  • Herpes Simplex Viruses

    Richard J. Whitley;David W. Kimberlin;Bernard Roizman

  • The order Herpesvirales.

    Andrew J. Davison;Richard Eberle;Bernhard Ehlers;Gary S. Hayward

  • Characterization of Herpes Simplex Virus Strains Differing in their Effects on Social Behaviour of Infected Cells

    Pilarica M. Ejercito;E. D. Kieff;B. Roizman

  • The γ134.5 protein of herpes simplex virus 1 complexes with protein phosphatase 1α to dephosphorylate the α subunit of the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2 and preclude the shutoff of protein synthesis by double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase

    Bin He;Martin Gross;Bernard Roizman

  • Mapping of herpes simplex virus-1 neurovirulence to gamma 134.5, a gene nonessential for growth in culture

    Joany Chou;Earl R. Kern;Richard J. Whitley;Bernard Roizman

  • Herpes simplex viruses.

    R. J. Whitley;B. Roizman

  • Human Herpesviruses: Biology, Therapy, and Immunoprophylaxis

    Ann Arvin;Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume;Edward Mocarski;Patrick S. Moore

  • Regulation of herpesvirus macromolecular synthesis: sequential transition of polypeptide synthesis requires functional viral polypeptides.

    R. W. Honess;Bernard Roizman

  • Proteins Specified by Herpes Simplex Virus V. Purification and Structural Proteins of the Herpesvirion

    Patricia G. Spear;Bernard Roizman

  • The proteins specified by herpes simplex virus: I. Time of synthesis, transfer into nuclei, and properties of proteins made in productively infected cells

    Patricia G. Spear;Bernard Roizman

  • Proteins specified by herpes simplex virus. XII. The virion polypeptides of type 1 strains.

    Jochen W. Heine;Jochen W. Heine;Robert W. Honess;Robert W. Honess;Enzo Cassai;Enzo Cassai;Bernard Roizman;Bernard Roizman

  • Infection with herpes-simplex viruses 1 and 2. II.

    André J. Nahmias;Bernard Roizman

  • An interferon-related gene signature for DNA damage resistance is a predictive marker for chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer

    Ralph R. Weichselbaum;Hemant Ishwaran;Taewon Yoon;Dimitry S. A. Nuyten

  • Regulation of α genes of herpes simplex virus: Expression of chimeric genes produced by fusion of thymidine kinase with α gene promoters

    Leonard E. Post;Susan Mackem;Bernard Roizman

  • The gamma 1(34.5) gene of herpes simplex virus 1 precludes neuroblastoma cells from triggering total shutoff of protein synthesis characteristic of programed cell death in neuronal cells.

    Joany Chou;Bernard Roizman

  • Characterization of the herpes simplex virion-associated factor responsible for the induction of alpha genes.

    W Batterson;B Roizman

  • Recovery from infants with respiratory illness of a virus related to chimpanzee coryza agent (CCA). I. Isolation, properties and characterization.

    Robert Chanock;Bernard Roizman;Ruth Myers

  • A generalized technique for deletion of specific genes in large genomes: a gene 22 of herpes simplex virus 1 is not essential for growth

    Leonard E. Post;Bernard Roizman

  • Size, Composition, and Structure of the Deoxyribonucleic Acid of Herpes Simplex Virus Subtypes 1 and 2

    Elliott D. Kieff;Steven L. Bachenheimer;Bernard Roizman

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward S. Mocarski
Edward S. Mocarski Emory University
Patrick S. Moore
Patrick S. Moore University of Pittsburgh
Koichi Yamanishi
Koichi Yamanishi Osaka University
Ralph R. Weichselbaum
Ralph R. Weichselbaum University of Chicago
Richard J. Whitley
Richard J. Whitley University of Alabama at Birmingham
Patricia G. Spear
Patricia G. Spear Northwestern University
Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume
Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume University of Bologna
Andre J. Nahmias
Andre J. Nahmias Emory University
Joel D. Baines
Joel D. Baines Cornell University
David M. Knipe
David M. Knipe Harvard University

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