| Eliot is the Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and co-director of the Channing Laboratory of the Brigham and Woman's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. The Kieff Lab, of which he is director, is also affiliated with the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics of the Harvard Medical School, Boston. A graduate of John Hopkins University, 1966, with additional degrees from the University of Chicago in 1970 and 1971, Kieff's laboratory had pioneered the genetics and biochemistry of the Epstein-Barr virus infection. His recent work had explored the mechanisms by which this virus persists in cells, alters lymphocyte growth, and causes lymphomas and Hodgkin's disease. Eliot lives in Boston with his wife, Jacqueline. |
