Residence London, United Kingdom | Name Polly Roy | |
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Institutions London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | ||
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Polly Roy is a professor and Chair of Virology at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She attended a number of schools which included Colombia University Medical School, Rutgers University, University of Alabama, and University of Oxford. In 2001 is when she became a part of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and, along with being the chair of Virology, she is also the co-organizer of the medical microbiology course. The virus that she has dedicated most of her career to is Bluetongue disease that affects sheep and cattle. She became interested in this virus after attending a symposium and was intrigued by the fact that not much was known about the virus that was causing such a nasty and sometimes fatal disease.
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Dr. Polly Roy went to Presidency College in Calcutta, India, where she was born. She than received a scholarship to study at New York University to receive her Ph.D. While she was studying biological sciences she met biologist Sol Spiegelman. Dr. Polly Roy then spent three years in a post-doctoral position in RNA Virology at Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University. After her post-doctoral work, she went to the University of Alabama at Birmingham to begin her own Blue Tongue Virus research group. She became a professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1987. Dr. Polly Roy then received the Fogarty Fellowship at the University of Oxford where she became a professor at in 1997. In 2001 Dr. Polly Roy became a Virology professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.