ABSTRACT
In this bonus chapter, we have the pleasure of talking with Professor Peter C. Doherty. Professor Doherty shared the Noble Prize for Medicine in 1996 and became Australian of the year in 1997. He is Laureate Professor and Patron of the Doherty Institute at the University of Melbourne and Michael F Tamer Chair of Biomedical Research, St Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, TN, USA. His expertise lies in viral pathogenesis and immunity, particularly the killer T cell response. Since April 2020, he has been writing weekly lay explainers of the science underlying COVID-19 and our efforts to control it. These can be read at https://www.doherty.edu.au/; the first 42 of these will be printed, along with related material, in “An Insider's Plague Year” (Melbourne University Publishing) which should come out in July 2021.
