Stephen P. Goff, PhD
Stephen P. Goff, PhD
Dr. Stephen P. Goff PhD is the Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University. Dr. Goff received his PhD from Stanford University focusing on the use of SV40 as a viral vector for the expression of foreign DNAs in mammalian cells. He did postdoctoral work with Dr. David Baltimore at MIT on the replication of the murine leukemia viruses as a Jane Coffin Childs fellow, and joined the Columbia faculty in 1981. Goff was a Searle Scholar and has received two MERIT awards from the NIH. He has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Science, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Amherst College in 1997, and was the inaugural recipient of the Retrovirus Prize in 2005.
The central effort of Dr. Goff’s laboratory for several years has been a detailed genetic analysis of the replication cycle of the Moloney murine leukemia virus (M-MuLV) and the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).