Oral history interview of Bertus Rima

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Context

Bertus Karel Rima, also known as Bert Rima, was born in The Netherlands and educated at the Technological University of Delft in chemical engineering and biotechnology. He then pursued Ph.D. studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in bacterial and phage genetics. He came to Queens University in Belfast in 1974 and was appointed Professor of Molecular Biology in 1993. His main research interest is to apply molecular biological and genetic techniques to virology and infectious diseases in general. He has an interest in human viruses (mumps and measles) as well as animal viruses such as rinderpest, canine distemper, and seal and dolphin morbilliviruses. He has published a book, over 160 refereed papers and invited reviews has been awarded the Silver Medal for Biochemistry from the Royal Irish Academy in 1994, elected Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 1997, and Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2002.

Description:

This thirty-two-minute-long oral history interview was conducted by the Digital Repository of Ireland as part of The Atlantic Philanthropies archive project (2017-2020) titled Amplifying change: A history of the Atlantic Philanthropies on the island of Ireland in 2019., In this interview Bertus Rima gives insight to the creation of the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine and the Patrick G. Johnson Centre for Cancer research. He elaborates on the vision of Patrick Johnson, who is also known as Paddy Johnson, Chuck Feeney and himself to build the centres adjointly to create a research facility that would attract researchers from all over the world, and have direct impact on the cancer survival rate in Northern Ireland. Bert talks about meeting with Chuck and the late Paddy Johnson before describing his research in virology., and This recording contains the personal views of the participants, they do not reflect the views of the DRI.

Type:

audio and oral histories (literary works)

Creator:

Digital Repository of Ireland, 2015 -

Subject:

Curated collection--Oral histories, Curated collection--Education, Curated collection--Knowledge application, Atlantic Philanthropies (Organization), Queen's University of Belfast Foundation, Curated collection--Bertus Rima, Queen's University of Belfast, Grant 21673, Grant 11836, Medicine--Research, Embedded computer systems, and Charity organization

Grant:

Grant 21673 and Grant 11836

Grantee:

Queen's University of Belfast Foundation

Year of Grant:

2003 and 2012

Location of Grantee:

Belfast

Rights:

Copyright is with DRI and Bertus Rima. Please see license for reuse.

Attribution:

Digital Repository of Ireland and The Atlantic Philanthropies

Doi:

https://doi.org/10.7486/DRI.zp399178j