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Hahn, B. (Beatrice)

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Biography

Dr. Beatrice Hahn is a virologist, biomedical researcher, and professor of Medicine and Microbiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She attended medical school at Technical University Munich and interned at Ludwig Maximillian University from 1981 to 1982. Dr. Hahn is best known for her contributions to pathology, specifically her work with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Dr. Hahn received her M.D. degree in 1981 from Technical University Munich, and then her Doctorate in Medicine in 1982. She then began her post-doctoral research at the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology. In 1985, she became a faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she established her own laboratory. There, she served as the co-director of the Center for AIDS Research from 2003 to 2011. In 2011, Dr. Hahn became a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania in the Perelman School of Medicine.

Dr. Hahn is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is also a part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s advisory board for the HIV/AIDS Program and has also served on NIH Counsel groups. She is acknowledged for her discovery of the origins of HIV types 1 and 2 as well as the malaria parasite. She has also developed several noninvasive practices to study the zoonotic potential of infectious microbes in primates.

Dr. Hahn has received several honors and awards including the Max Cooper Award for Research Excellence in 2001, being recognized as one of “The 50 Most Important Women in Science” in Discover Magazine in 2002, and the National Institutes of Health R37 Merit Award in 2008. She has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2010, a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, the Winford P. Larson Lectureship in 2014, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Apes to Humans: The Origin of HIV - Beatrice Hahn

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Scope and Contents From the Series: Never before have the pioneers of the science of retroviruses, the discoverers of human retroviruses, the developers of HIV/AIDS therapeutics, and key figures in important research findings come together to discuss the history and future of the field. This interdisciplinary group reviewed the key scientific, epidemiological, and clinical discoveries that created this field, delved into the present science of HIV/AIDS, and discussed and debated the paths to the future control of this global...
Dates: 2016
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives / CSHL Annual History of Science Meetings Collection / Series 7: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History & Future (October 13-16)

Beatrice H. Hahn, 2023-03-16

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Oral History Collection contains interviews conducted with 200 scientists within the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and the life sciences between 1990 and 2024. The interviewees provide first-hand accounts of their experiences in the fields of modern biology, such as neuroscience, cancer, genetics, plant genetics, genomics, biotechnology and others, from the 1940s through the 2000s. The collection contains audio and video recordings, as well as transcripts of interviews....
Dates: 2023-03-16
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives / Oral History Collection / Talking Science Interviews

Immunological Aspects of Aids, 1989-12-04 - 1989-12-07

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Scope and Contents The Immunological Aspects of AIDS meeting provided an opportunity for researchers to determine what progress has been made in this field and what topics require special attention. The primary target of HIV is the immune system, and it might be expected that by now there would be a clear understanding of how the virus produces an immunodeficient state. Such an understanding may be a prerequisite for designing efficient and safe vaccines. However, the difficulties of working with complex...
Dates: 1989-12-04 - 1989-12-07
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives / Banbury Conference Center Audio Collection, 1989-1995