EDUCATION AND TRAINING

PhD, Medicine (McGill University)
Postdoctoral training in Molecular Biology (Harvard University)

BIOGRAPHY

Dr.Benjamin tenOever has led an independent research group focused on virus biology since 2007. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Microbiology and the Jan T. Vilček Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Ben earned his PhD in Medicine from McGill University in 2004 and completed his postdoctoral training in Molecular Biology at Harvard University in 2007. His research centers on the molecular biology of negative-sense RNA viruses, the host cellular response to infection, and the repurposing of viral mechanisms to develop novel platforms for biological delivery.

Ben is a former Pew scholar, a Borroughs Wellcome Fund Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease, and served as the U.S. Ambassador of Science to France as a Distinguished Chair of the Fulbright Commission. His contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Science, the Blavatnik award for scientific excellence, the Vilček Award for creative promise, and the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.