Robert J. Suhadolnik

Robert J. Suhadolnik (1925 −January 26, 2016 in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania) was an American biochemist known for his work with HIV, chronic fatigue syndrome, and antibiotics.

Early life Suhadolnik was born and raised in Forest City, Pennsylvania. countering the view that the syndrome was purely psychological. the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that his research continued to be funded for several years afterward, with "uninterrupted research grant support from 1961 to 2015 from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health".

Second, (as reported in Gregory Zuckerman's 2021 A Shot to Save the World) in 1988, when Karikó accepted a job at Johns Hopkins University without first informing Suhadolnik of her intention to leave Temple, he told her that if she went to Johns Hopkins, he would have her deported. He then reported her to immigration authorities, claiming that she was "illegally" in the United States; in the time it took her to successfully challenge the resulting extradition order, Johns Hopkins withdrew their offer. Suhadolnik "continued bad-mouthing Karikó, making it impossible for her to get a new position" at other institutions, until she met a researcher at Bethesda Naval Hospital who "had his own difficult history with Suhadolnik". Karikó subsequently confirmed that the incident had happened as Zuckerman described, but emphasized that "more importantly I was always grateful to [Suhadolnik for] sending me the IAP66 form in 1985, for the opportunity he gave me to work in his lab", noting that "when I gave a lecture [at Temple, a] couple of years later, I thanked him for the science I learned from him."