Daniel Rock
DANIEL ROCK’S research has focused on animal infectious disease with an emphasis on
molecular mechanisms underlying viral virulence and host range of high-consequence viral diseases such
as African swine fever, classical swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest and exotic poxviruses.
His laboratory has used comparative and functional genomic approaches together with animal disease
models to define and characterize the role of specific viral and host genes in disease.
Dr. Rock obtained a BSE degree from Drake University in Des Moines and a Ph.D. in Veterinary
Microbiology from Iowa State University in 1981. His Postdoctoral research was at the Wistar Institute in
Philadelphia in molecular virology. He held faculty positions at North Dakota State University and the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln before joining the Agricultural Research Service as Research Leader of
Exotic Viral Diseases at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York in 1989. There he
developed and led major research initiatives on foreign animal diseases, pathogen functional genomics
and rapid pathogen detection.
In March 2005 he joined the faculty as Professor and Head of the Department of Pathobiology,
College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign.
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