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Max Essex (Myron Elmer Essex) was born on 17 August, 1939 in Coventry, Rhode Island, is an American virologist (born 1939). Discover Max Essex's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?
| Popular As |
Myron Elmer Essex |
| Occupation |
Virologist, veterinarian, professor of immunology and public health |
| Age |
84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
| Born |
17 August, 1939 |
| Birthday |
17 August |
| Birthplace |
Coventry, Rhode Island |
| Nationality |
Rhode Island
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Max Essex Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Max Essex's Wife?
His wife is Dr. Elizabeth Essex
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| Wife |
Dr. Elizabeth Essex |
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| Children |
2 adult daughters; 5 grandchildren |
Max Essex Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Max Essex worth at the age of 84 years old? Max Essex’s income source is mostly from being a successful professor. He is from Rhode Island. We have estimated Max Essex's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
| Source of Income |
professor |
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Timeline
Myron Elmer "Max" Essex (born August 17, 1939) is the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, emeritus in the department of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard University, chair of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HAI) in the department of immunology and infectious diseases, and chair of the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute in Gaborone, Botswana.
Essex was one of the first to link animal and human retroviruses to immunosuppressive disease, to suspect that a retrovirus was the cause of AIDS, and to determine that HIV could be transmitted through blood and blood products to hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions.
With collaborators, Essex also provided the first evidence that HIV could be transmitted by heterosexual intercourse.
Essex was born in Coventry, Rhode Island in 1939.
His 45 years of working papers, the Myron Essex papers, 1949–1996, are archived in the Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine through funding by a Hidden Collections grant from the Harvard University Library (HUL) within the Maximizing Microbiology: Molecular Genetics, Cancer, and Virology, 1936-2000 project.
In addition to the Myron Essex papers (1949–1996), the project has already led to the processing of collections of several other microbiologists, including those of Bernard D. Davis, Arthur B. Pardee, Francesc Duran i Reynals, and Luigi Gorini.
Essex serves on the Library's Archives Committee.
Essex earned his DVM from Michigan State University in 1967.
He has been married to Elizabeth Essex since 1967.
They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
He earned his Ph.D. from University of California, Davis, in 1970.
In 1984, Essex identified gp120, the virus surface protein that is used worldwide for blood screening, HIV detection, and epidemiological monitoring.
With collaborators, including African microbiologist Souleymane Mboup, he discovered the first simian immunodeficiency virus, as well as HIV-2.
Since 1986, he has developed programs for AIDS collaboration in Senegal, Thailand, Botswana, India, Mexico, and China.
Essex holds ten honorary doctorates and 15 patents and has received the Lasker Award, the highest medical research award given in the United States, jointly with Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier in 1986.
He has published over 500 papers and 12 books, including two editions of AIDS in Africa (ISBN 0306466996), and his latest, Saturday Is for Funerals (ISBN 0674050770).
Essex has worked in twelve (12) different nations as a veterinarian and virologist: Botswana, China, Colombia, India, Japan, Nigeria, Senegal, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, U.S., Zaire.
In 1996, Essex helped establish the Botswana–Harvard Partnership for HIV Research and Education (now the Botswana–Harvard AIDS Institute).
This is a collaboration between the Ministry of Health in Botswana and HAI.
In 2018 Dr. Essex announced his retirement plans.
He has been the primary mentor to eight (80) postdocs and to 34 doctoral students.
He has authored 629 research papers, forty (40) of which have been published in Science or Nature.
