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Title: Fellowship Certificate
Creator: Levy, Jay
Date Created and/or Issued: June-September, 1964
Publication Information: Digital resource published by the Regents of the University of California
Contributing Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
Collection: Levy (Jay A) Papers
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: Dr. Levy received a fellowship in tropical medicine from Louisiana State University.
Scope/Content: The fellowship permitted him to work with Dr. Dennis Burkitt, who had described lymphomas in young children in Africa. This cancer appeared to be caused by a virus present in specific environments – perhaps spread by mosquitoes. In that research at the East African Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, they found antibodies to reoviruses in sera from Burkitt patients. That discovery sparked research on these RNA viruses when he returned to Columbia University.
Type: text
Identifier: MSS_2017_46_Levy_box01_11
Language: English
eng
Subject: Virology
Levy, Jay
LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans
Source: Jay Levy papers, MSS 2017-46, box 01, folder 11

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