Arnold J. Berk | |
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Awards | MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Immunology, Microbiology |
Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles |
Academic advisors | Phillip Allen Sharp |
Arnold J. Berk is an American professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] He was a member of the Molecular Biology Institute, a division of University of California, Los Angeles. [1] He was one of the discoverers of RNA splicing. [2] His work focuses on gene regulation in DNA viruses. [2] In 1998 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [3] In 2003, he received a MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute. [4] He authored editions 3 through 10 of the influential basic textbook Molecular Cell Biology [5] published by Macmillan. [6]