Background
Black, Paul Henry was born on March 11, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel Louis and May (Goldberg) Black.
Black, Paul Henry was born on March 11, 1930 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Samuel Louis and May (Goldberg) Black.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1952. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1956.
Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1956-1957;
resident in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1957-1958;
clinical and research fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1958-1960;
resident in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1960-1961;
senior assistant surgeon Laboratory Infectious Diseases United States Public Health Service, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1961-1963;
senior surgeon Laboratory Infectious Diseases United States Public Health Service, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U. Glasgow Institute Virology, Scotland, 1963-1964;
senior surgeon Laboratory Infectious Diseases United States Public Health Service, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1964-1967;
assistant professor medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1967-1970;
associate professor medicine, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 1970-1980;
assistant physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1967-1970;
associate physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1970-1980;
honorary physician, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, since 1980;
director Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Research Center, Boston University, 1979-1983;
chairman, professor microbiology, research professor surgery, professor medicine, Boston University School Medicine, 1979-1996;
professor emeritus, Boston University School Medicine, since 1996. Consultant Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, 1976-1980, Monsanto Chemical Corporation, St. Louis, 1976-1982, Collaborative Research, Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts, 1984-1990, National Cancer Advisory Board Subcommittee on the Evaluation of Cancer Centers, Bethesda, 1975-1980. Science consultant United States-Israel Binat.
Science Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel, since 1974. Member National Institutes of Health Study Section Virology, 1968-1972,Tumor Virus Detection Segment, Special Virus Cancer Program, Bethesda, 1972-1976. Member subcommittee on environmental carcinogens, American Cancer Society Task Force on Cancer Prevention, 1975-1982, science advisory board Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Massachusetts, 1976-1978, science advisory board Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, N.H., 1976-1980, Governor's Task Force on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, since 1983.
Chairman special virus cancer program contract review committee, National Cancer Institute, 1977-1979.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, Infectious Diseases Society, American Society Microbiology, American Society Virology, American Association Medical School Microbiology Chairman, Society General Microbiology, Sigma Xi.
Married Sandra Merkin, June 2, 1962. Children: Scott, Marc, Jeffrey.