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Richard Michael Krause (January 4, 1925 – January 6, 2015) was an American physician, microbiologist, and immunologist. He was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1975 to 1984.
Richard M. Krause stands at the Nashville, Tennessee, gravesite of his hero Oswald T. Avery (1877–1955), the Rockefeller scientist who developed bacterial disease immunotherapy and studied the mysterious phenomenon of pneumococcal transformation. The transforming factor turned out to be DNA.
Richard M. Krause, a former Rockefeller University faculty member who later became director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and presciently warned against complacency toward infectious disease, has died at the age of 90.
25 feb 2015 · Richard Michael Krause, M.D. medical microbiologist, immunologist, and later science administrator, was born in Marietta, Ohio, USA, where his father was professor of chemistry at Marietta College, and where Krause received his BA in 1947.
- Klaus Eichmann
- eichmann@immunbio.mpg.de
- 2015
13 ago 2019 · Appointed the director of NIAID in 1975, Dr. Krause was among the first to perceive "the return of the microbes." He guided the Institute through a period of growth to cope with the re-emergence of microbial diseases as health threats and to stimulate research on the complexity of the immune system.
Richard M. Krause, a microbiologist and immunologist who steered the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through the early, tumultuous years of the AIDS epidemic. He focused much of his scientific career on the genetic factors that affect the body's immune system.
Richard was a completely self-styled American orig-inal, in the mold of British eccentrics. No description can do justice to the celebratory carnival that was his life. Always dressed to the nines, he exuded a dapper, debonair, flower-in-the-buttonhole bonhomie straight out of a Fred Astaire film.
