Profile: Patrick Moore

QnAs with Patrick Moore.

Since its inception just over a century ago, the field of tumor virology has provided insights into the causes for many cancers. Patrick Moore, director of the Cancer Virology Program at the University of Pittsburgh, is a leading contributor to the field, having codiscovered two of the seven known human cancer-causing viruses. In 1994, with wife and collaborator Yuan Chang, Moore identified Kap...

Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore: teaming up to hunt down cancer-causing viruses.

Y uan Chang was an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University when a friend mentioned a teaching assistant whom she might want to meet. His name was Patrick Moore, and he was a doctoral candidate in biophysical chemistry, also at Stanford. Ironically, Moore had also been tipped off about Chang, but as fate would have it, the pair didn't actually connect until they were both in medi...

Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh graduated in Communications Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989, when he moved to Harvard as a Professor of Psychology. Along with Ken Nakayama, he founded the Vision Sciences Laboratory at Harvard i...

Patrick Lemaire

Patrick Lemaire grew up in Orsay, close to Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and did his PhD at the EMBL (Heidelberg) and ENS (Paris) with Patrick Charnay (1985–1990); he then joined, as a post-doc, the laboratory of John Gurdon in Cambridge (1991–1994), where he identified a crucial Xenopus organizer gene, Siamois. He has been heading a CNRS research group in Marseille since 199...

Patrick Graves