Charles M. Rice

Charles M. Rice
Rice in 2016
Born	Charles Moen Rice (1952-08-25) August 25, 1952 (age 71) Sacramento, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Davis (BS) California Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Awards	Robert Koch Prize (2015) Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2016) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2020)
Scientific career
Institutions	Washington University School of Medicine Rockefeller University Cornell University
Thesis	Studies on the Structural Proteins of Sindbis Virus (1981)
Doctoral advisor	James Strauss
Website	www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/heads-of-laboratories/893-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 in New York City 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.^[1][2] 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."^[3][4]