Leslie J. Parent is an American microbiologist and immunologist currently professor and vice dean of the College of Medicine at Pennsylvania State University. She is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society for Microbiology.
Education She earned her M.D. in 1987 at Duke University followed by residency and training at Duke University Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine.
Research Her research involves virology, retrovirus duplicating and biology. Her highest cited paper is "Positionally independent and exchangeable late budding functions of the Rous sarcoma virus and human immunodeficiency virus Gag proteins"L J Parent, R P Bennett, R C Craven, T D Nelle, N K Krishna, J B Bowzard, C B Wilson, B A Puffer, R C Montelaro and J W Wills. J. Virol. September 1995 vol. 69 no. 9 5455-5460 cited at 278 times, according to Google Scholar.
Awards and honors 2017- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
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