Founder and Managing Director

Dr. Rice is the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor of Molecular Virology, Viral Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development and Director of the Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease at The Rockefeller University in New York.  He was a member of the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis from 1986 to 2000 as a Professor of Molecular Microbiology.  Dr. Rice received his B.A. in Zoology from the University of California in 1974, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1981. Dr. Rice is an expert in RNA viruses and his group in New York is among the world's leaders in the molecular biology of hepatitis C virus. Dr. Rice has published over one hundred original research publications in peer-reviewed journals and numerous review articles and book chapters. Dr. Rice is a member of the Experimental Virology Study Section, NIAID, NIH, and he is a member of the Editorial Board of Virology and Journal of Virology. He is a consultant to and a member of the scientific advisory board of multiple pharmaceutical companies. He holds multiple U.S. and Global patents related to hepatitis C virus molecular biology.