Burwitz lab - studying hepatitis B virus
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Lauren Rust, Ph.D., assistant staff scientist, works in the lab of Benjamin J. Burwitz, Ph.D., in the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Burwitz and Rust have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model — genetically modified to carry a human gene — for studying hepatitis B virus. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)