Dr. Ganem received his A.B. degree in biochemistry from Harvard College in 1972 and his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1977. Following his medical residency at Harvard he did subspecialty clinical training in infectious diseases at UCSF, where he also undertook postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Harold Varmus. He joined the faculty at UCSF in 1984, where his lab has focused on the replication and pathogenesis of human viral pathogens, including hepatitis B virus and human herpesvirus 8. Dr. Ganem is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and is President-Elect of the American Society for Virology