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Meyenburg Prize to Moore and Chang for Kaposi’s Discovery

The Columbia University husband and wife research team of Patrick Moore, M.D., a CSPH epidemiologist, and Yuan Chang, M.D., a neuropathologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, recently garnered the 1997 Meyenburg Prize for their pioneering research of herpesvirus 8 and its role in the pathogenensis of Kaposi’s sarcoma. The pair traveled to Heidelberg, Germany to receive the international award presented by the German Cancer Research Foundation. With the KS discovery, Columbia epidemiologists found one of the few viruses linked to cancer in humans.

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