Charles M. Rice

Charles Moen Rice (born August 25, 1952) is an American virologist and Nobel Prize laureate whose main area of research is the hepatitis C virus. He is a professor of virology at the Rockefeller University and an adjunct professor at Cornell University and Washington University School of Medicine. At the time of the award he was a faculty at Rockefeller.

Rice is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the National Academy of Sciences and was president of the American Society for Virology from 2002 to 2003. He received the 2016 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, jointly with Ralf F. W. Bartenschlager and Michael J. Sofia. Along with Michael Houghton and Harvey J. Alter, he was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus."

Early life and education Charles Moen Rice was born on August 25, 1952, in Sacramento, California.

Rice graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in zoology from University of California, Davis, in 1974. In 1981, he received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where he studied RNA viruses in the laboratory of James Strauss. He remained at Caltech for four years to do postdoctoral research.

Career After his postdoctoral work, Rice moved with his research group to the Washington University School of Medicine in 1986, where he remained until 2001. 2004 Elected fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 Elected member, National Academy of Sciences 2005 Elected fellow, American Academy of Microbiology 2007 M.W. Beijerinck Virology Prize 2015 Robert Koch Prize 2016 Artois-Baillet Latour Health Prize 2016 Lasker Award 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine