1. Peter Palese is a United States microbiologist, researcher, inventor and the Horace W Goldsmith Professor in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and an expert in the field of RNA viruses.
Peter Palese is on the editorial board for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Peter Palese has been awarded multiple patents on viral vaccines and antivirals.
Peter Palese later developed his interest in science at the University of Vienna, where he received his Ph.
Peter Palese was a postdoctoral fellow at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology from 1970 until 1971 when he joined the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an assistant professor.
Peter Palese developed a new animal model for studying the transmission of influenza viruses.
Peter Palese has been involved in developing novel vaccines against influenza viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.
Peter Palese is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Peter Palese has served the presidencies of the Harvey Society from 2003 to 2004 and the American Society of Virology from 2005 to 2006.
Peter Palese received honorary doctorates from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Baylor College of Medicine, and McMaster University.