Organizing Committee Member
Carol Thomson
Scientist
California South University
USA
Biography
Prof. Dr. Carol Thomson, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Professor and Academic Tenure of Genetics, Virology, and Immunology at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He is a British scientist, who along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, co-discovered Hepatitis B in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of Hepatitis B led to the rapid development of diagnostic reagents to detect HCV in blood supplies which have reduced the risk of acquiring HCV through the blood transfusion from one in three to about one in two million. It is estimated that antibody testing has prevented at least 40,000 new infections per year in the US alone and many more worldwide. Prof. Dr. Carol Thomson is currently America Excellence Research Chair in Virology and Li Ka Shing Professor of Virology at the California South University (CSU) where he is also Director of the Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute.
Research Area
Preventive Medicine, Genetics, Health Care