Dr. Neil R. Blacklow headed a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that led to the discovery of Norovirus.
CAMBRIDGE, MA, December 26, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Neil R. Blacklow, MD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Blacklow celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Renowned for his prestige in research, medicine, virology and academia, Dr. Blacklow recently retired in 2017, having accrued more than 50 years in his profession. A past lecturer in the department of medicine at Harvard Medical School between 1983 and 2017, he previously contributed significant time to the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he started in 1976 as a professor of medicine, molecular genetics and microbiology and the founding director of the division of infectious diseases. Holding both roles until 1990, Dr. Blacklow subsequently served as the Richard M. Haidack Distinguished Professor and Chair of Medicine between 1990 and 2000. He attained the distinguished titles of a professor emeritus and chairman emeritus in 2008.
Earlier in his career, Dr. Blacklow excelled as a senior scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 1969 and 1971 and an assistant professor and associate professor of medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine from 1971 to 1976. After earning a Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University in 1963, he completed an internship and residency in medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston from 1963 until 1965 before serving as a research associate at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1965 to 1968. Thereafter, Dr. Blacklow was a fellow in infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, completing his medical training in 1969.
A contributor of more than 200 articles to professional journals, Dr. Blacklow has been the editor of three editions of the textbook "Infectious Diseases." He has also been the founding editor of the NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases since 1998 and is a former associate editor of Clinical Infectious Diseases and the Archives of Internal Medicine. He has contributed to UpToDate since 2000. Impressively, Dr. Blacklow headed a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that led to the discovery of Norovirus, now known to be the most common cause of infectious gastroenteritis. He also was co-discoverer of the adenovirus-associated virus (AAV), which is now used in gene therapies.
Dr. Blacklow served to the rank of a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Services for three years prior to his honorable discharge in 1968. A fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, he has also maintained his membership with a number of pertinent organizations. To wit, Dr. Blacklow has been a member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Clinical and Climatological Association, the American Society for Microbiology, the American Epidemiological Society, and the American Association of Immunologists.
As a testament to his immense success in the field, Dr. Blacklow was honored with the University Outstanding Educator Award on the 125th anniversary of the University of Massachusetts. He was also a grantee of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command between 1976 and 1990, as well as the National Institutes of Health between 1971 and 1990. From 1972 to 1974, he was a fellow of the Medical Foundation of Boston. However, Dr. Blacklow is perhaps most proud to have led the research team to discover Norovirus, and to have been the founding director of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Massachusetts Medical School as well as the founding editor of the NEJM Journal Watch Infectious Diseases publication.
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