2025 Swisher Lecture
Mon, April 28, 2025 12:00 PM - Mon, April 28, 2025 1:00 PM at University Club, Michigan State University
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Heritage Room | University Club | In-person or Zoom
Lunch provided for in-person attendees (space is limited)
Join us for the annual Swisher Memorial Lecture, featuring Harvey J. Alter, MD. Dr. Alter is an American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, who is beknown for his work that led to ther discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Register for the Lecture by April 18
About Dr. Alter
Harvey James Alter is an American medical researcher, virologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate, who is best known for his work that led to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Alter is the former chief of the infectious disease section and the associate director for research of the Department of Transfusion Medicine at the Warren Fran Magnuson Clinical Center in the Nationanl Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Dr. Alter has been designated as a Distinguished NIH Invesetiagor, only 1 of 23 to be so named. He was co-discoverer of the Australia antigen that later proved to be a critical marker of the hepatitis B virus and was principal investigator in studies that identified non-A, non-B hepatitis and later showed its identity to HCV. His prospective studies traced the decline of post-transfusion hepatitis incidence from 30% in 1970 to near zero in 1997. Dr. Alter is recipient of the Clinical Lasker Award, the Canada Gairdner International Award, and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2020 he was corecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
