Peter C. Doherty

Peter C. Doherty shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He has worked on aspects of infection and immunity for almost 50 years. His recent books include Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know and Their Fate is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World. He spends his professional time between St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Peter C. Doherty

There's a Solution to Ebola—It's Called 'Money'

We could have been better prepared for this outbreak, but we can’t expect industry to invest in vaccines for a sporadic, developing-world disease