Vincent Munster

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Vincent Munster is the Chief of the Virus Ecology Unit in the Laboratory of Virology at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana. [1]

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Education

Munster received his PhD in virology in 2006 from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He studied under Ab Osterhaus and Ron Fouchier.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 2008, Munster traveled to the Netherlands Arctic Station, located on Spitsbergen, the northernmost village in the world, where he sampled birds and geese for influenza. [2] In 2009, Munster moved to Rocky Mountain Laboratories. [3] Around 2011, his laboratory started using Syrian Golden hamster's (Mesocricetus auratus) for disease transmission research. [4]

Munster's lab is built around the concept of integrating fieldwork, experimental work, and computational modeling to study bat viruses in their natural, intermediate, and human hosts. In 2018, Munster won two DARPA PREEMPT projects using self-spreading bat vaccine technology. [5] [6] In December 2018, Munster co-published with Ralph Baric an Egyptian fruit bat infection study. [7]

Awards

In 2020, Munster and his wife, Emmie de Wit, were conferred the Golden Goose Award. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Vincent Munster". NIAID. 19 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Vincent Munster". arcticstation.nl. 2008.
  3. ↑ "Vincent Munster". Bitterroot Star. 13 January 2021.
  4. ↑ De Wit, Emmie; Bushmaker, Trenton; Scott, Dana; Feldmann, Heinz; Munster, Vincent J. (2011). "Nipah virus transmission in a hamster model". PLOS. 5 (12): e1432. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001432 . PMC   3236726 . PMID   22180802.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)
  5. ↑ "DARPA PREEMPT project". DARPA.
  6. ↑ "DARPA PREEMPT Project". UC Davis. 17 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Van Doremalen, Neeltje; Schäfer, Alexandra; Menachery, Vineet D.; Letko, Michael; Bushmaker, Trenton; Fischer, Robert J.; Figueroa, Dania M.; Hanley, Patrick W.; Saturday, Greg; Baric, Ralph S.; Munster, Vincent J. (2018). "SARS-Like Coronavirus WIV1-CoV Does Not Replicate in Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus)". Viruses. 10 (12): 727. doi: 10.3390/v10120727 . PMC   6316779 . PMID   30572566.
  8. ↑ "Golden Goose Winners Deliver Head Start in Fight Against COVID-19". aaas.org.
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