Dr. Charles Wood Receives University Professor Honor

Date: November 25, 2003

The University of Nebraska announced today that Dr. Charles Wood has been selected as a University Professor, the campus’ highest possible distinction for a faculty member. The selection committee consisted of current University Professors, other faculty members, and administrators. He was selected at this time along with two other professors bringing the total to 27 in a faculty of nearly 1,500. “Our newest University Professors . . .have distinguished themselves as first-rank researchers who have achieved at the highest levels of their individual disciplines and who are acknowledged leaders in their fields of study,” said UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman.

As reported in the Lincoln Journal Star, “Dr. Wood, whose research focuses on the molecular biology of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, and the Kaposi’s sarcoma associated human herpes virus, will have the title of Lewis Lehr/3M University Professor of Biological Sciences. In 2000, he led a collaboration of virology researchers at UNL, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University that won a $10.8 million National Institutes of Health grant to establish the Nebraska Center for Viral Pathogenesis” (known as the Nebraska Center for Virology).

” Wood was a faculty member at Kansas for seven years and came to Nebraska in 1996 after four years at the University of Miami, where he was associate professor and director of the Division of Neurovirology.”