Elliott Dan Kieff (February 2, 1943 – January 4, 2024)[1] was an American physician who was the emeritus Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
During his clinical training in Internal Medicine at Hopkins, Kieff began to work in the Department of Microbiology with Bernard Roizman.
[3] In 1971, Kieff received a PhD from the University of Chicago for studies on the size, structure, and relatedness among Herpes Viruses DNAs.
In 1988, he was appointed to the Harriet Ryan Albee Professorship of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
He characterized EBV's DNA, RNAs, and proteins, including their roles in infection and oncogenesis.