Dr. Alan Rein

Dr. Alan Rein obtained his Ph.D. with Dr. Harry Rubin at the University of California at Berkeley and completed postdoctoral research as an American Cancer Society Fellow under the direction of Dr. Sheldon Penman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Rein has been associated with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 1976. In 1999, he joined the HIV Drug Resistance Program (renamed the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program in 2015) as Head of the Retrovirus Assembly Section and was appointed to the NCI Senior Biomedical Research Service. Dr. Rein received the NIH Director's Award in 2012, and in 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. His research has dealt with several aspects of the biology and molecular biology of murine and human retroviruses, including virus assembly and maturation, viral envelope function, translational suppression, and pathogenesis. Since 2019, he has served on the Organizing Committee of the Annual Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award and Symposium in Virology. In 2021, he was appointed Guest Editor of the Viruses Special Issue “In Memory of Stephen Oroszlan” and Co-Editor of the Viruses Special Issue “Molecular Genetics of Retrovirus Replication”. He served on the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Tenure Review Panel from 2006 to 2017 and is currently a member of the CCR RNA Biology Initiative.