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Robert L. Hirsch,Ph.D. is a immunologist and virologist who established several important basic concepts in viral immunology. He demonstrated the importance of the complement system in recovery from acute viral infection in mouse models of encephalitis. In the area of human virology and immunology, he worked studying epidemics of measles virus infectgion in developing nation, to demonstrate the differences in immune reponses and suppression in patients with different complications from the infection. Basic and intervention studies in multiple sclerosis patients showed that certain interferons exacerbated disease and as such was an important finding showing that certain conmponents of the immune system were important in disease progression.