Jessica Wapner | Dec 1, 2010 | 3 min read
By Jessica Wapner Infectious Curiosity The Hepatitis C virus NS3 serine protease (in gray) James Griffith, Vertex Pharmaceuticals The course of virologist Charlie Rice’s career changed with one phone call in 1989. Then at Washington University in St. Louis, Rice was the country’s leading yellow fever expert. The voice on the other end of the line belonged to Stephen Feinstone, an FDA scientist asking about a vaccine for the disease that had just won agenc