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Baruch Blumberg (1787 words) |
 | Baruch Blumberg is currently a visiting Professor in the Human Biology department at Stanford University and this interview was conducted on the Stanford campus on March 1998. |
| Blumberg attended an International Conference in Geneva in 1989, where the Feasability of Eradication of hepatitis B was the main topic of discussion. |
| Blumberg postulates that the reason for the AIDS hysteria is because when HIV was first encountered in the early 80's, it was immediately associated with a probability of death, if infected, near 100%. |
| 09/16/1999 - Pennsylvania Current: Q & A: Baruch S. Blumberg (1133 words) |
| At 74, Blumberg, the senior advisor to the president of Fox Chase Cancer Center and a University Professor of Medicine and Anthropology, takes on his new post this month after a distinguished career as a scientist and educator. |
| Blumberg’s varied travels have taken him from a internship and residency on the overcrowded wards at Bellevue Hospital in New York (he earned his medical degree at Columbia in 1951) to research in West Africa, the Philippines, Surinam and Australia. |
| Blumberg’s intellectual curiosity has taken him to the fields of medical anthropology, evolutionary biology and human genetics, earning him 23 honorary degrees, including ones from Penn and Oxford, where he had earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1957. |
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