Vincent Racaniello (left) and Richard Elliott (right) VINCENT RACANIELLO
Richard Elliott, who studied viruses and emerging diseases at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research (CVR) died earlier this month (June 5). He was 61.
Elliot held the Bill Jarrett Chair of Infectious Diseases at the CVR and was well-known for his work with bunyavirus, an arbovirus that infects arthropods and vertebrates.
Elliott studied viral replication as a PhD student at the University of Oxford and spent his postdoc at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, studying influenza viruses. He became a professor of molecular biology at the University of Glasgow in 1995 and the institution’s joint head of virology in 1998. In 1996, he coauthored the first study demonstrating the production of an infectious RNA virus using complementary DNA.
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