Remember Professor Wiley?
It was reported he fell off a Memphis bridge and died in the Missisippi River. Interesting. This SARS bug would have been in his area of expertise.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/specials/2001/wiley/wileybio.html Biography of Professor Don C. Wiley
December 21, 2001
Don C. Wiley was the John L. Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Harvard University's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Wiley's research, which made him one of the most influential biologists of his generation, focused on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. Specifically, his work sought to understand the molecular mechanisms that enable viruses to infect cells and to discover how cells respond to external challenges by presenting antigens and mobilizing defensive cells.
In studying the structure of viruses such as Influenza, AIDS , Ebola, and herpes simplex, he examined the ways in which viruses bind to cell surfaces and enter cells and the ways in which viruses has evolved to infect different organisms and to escape the immune response of their hosts. By understanding these processes, Wiley sought to find new ways to combat these viruses.