George Louis Drusano (born 22 August 1949 in Baltimore) is an American physician and medical researcher.
Drusano attended Loyola High School in Baltimore and studied physics at Boston College with a bachelor's degree in 1971. He then studied medicine at the University of Maryland with an M.D. in 1975. After a chief residency at the University of Maryland Hospital, he became a professor of medicine there. From 1992 to 2011 he was a professor at the Albany Medical Center Hospital, where he was the director of clinical pharmacology. Since 2011 he is the director of the University of Florida's Institute for Therapeutic Innovation.[1]
Drusano studies the pharmacodynamics of antibiotics and antiviral drugs against infectious diseases, including mathematical modeling. His research includes anti-infective pharmacology against bacteria such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, viruses such as hepatitis C virus and HIV, and pathogens in bioweapons and bioterrorism.[1]
He received in 1991 the Rhone-Poulenc Award, in 2012 the Maxwell Finland Award,[1] and in 2015 the Paul Ehrlich Magic Bullet Award.[2] From 2000 to 2002, he was president of the International Society for Anti-Infective Pharmacology (ISAP).[1] For 10 years he was the editor of the Section of Pharmacology at the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. He is the author or co-author of over 300 research articles.[2]
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- ^ a b c d "George L. Drusano, MD, Recipient of the 2012 Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement" (PDF). National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
- ^ a b "George L. Drusano". Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership.