John L. Gerin

John Louis Gerin (born 28 September 1937) is an American virologist who has worked on hepatitis viruses, and made important contributions to the discovery of the Hepatitis D genome in 1986.

[1][2] He obtained a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 1959 and an MSc and PhD from the University of Tennessee in 1961 and 1964 respectively.

[3] In 1998, he was granted the King Faisal Prize along with Robert Purcell for "Control of Communicable Diseases".

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