Tuberculosis -
January 2009
Interview Date: August 2009
Clifton E. Barry,
III
From the Special Topic of
Tuberculosis
In our Special Topics analysis of tuberculosis research
over the past decade, the work of Dr. Clifton Barry, III, ranks
at #1 by total cites, based on 53 papers cited a total of 5,178
times. His work ranks in the top 1% in the field of
Microbiology in
Essential Science IndicatorsSMfrom
Thomson
Reuters.
Figure 1: Scanning electron microscopic
photo of TB prepared by Dr. Barry with
Elizabeth Fischer of the NIAID Rocky
Mountain Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana
where Dr. Barry spent about 8 years.
Figure
2:
Figure 2: Dr. Barry at the opening of an
NGO he helped found in South Korea called
the International Tuberculosis Research
Center (ITRC) in March of 2009. Dr. Barry
is standing next to the US Ambassador to
South Korea, the Honorable Kathleen
Stephens, who is standing next to the South
Korean Minister of Health, Welfare and
Family Affairs, the Honorable Jae Hee Jeon.
ITRC is a cooperative US-Korean center
dedicated to translational and clinical
research to improve the care of patients
with drug-resistant tuberculosis.