Alan Perelson

Perelson has B.S. degrees in Life Sciences and in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley. He was an Acting Assistant Professor of Medical Physics at UC Berkeley, an Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences at Brown University, Head of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and is now a Senior Fellow, the highest scientific rank at LANL. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is the recipient of an NIH MERIT Award and the Max Delbruck Award in Biological Physics “For profound contributions to theoretical immunology, which bring insight and save lives”. He has made fundamental contributions to theoretical immunology and the development of within host models of virus-host interactions that have led to significant insights into HIV, HCV and HBV infection and treatment.

He has published over 600 articles that have garnered over 90,000 citations.