Etienne de Harven

Etienne de Harven, MD
Born	March 5, 1928 Brussels, Belgium
Residence	Saint Cézaire sur Siagne, France
Fields	Pathology, electron microscopy, cancer research
Institutions	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (1956-1981), University of Toronto (1981-1993) Cornell Graduate School
Alma mater	Université Libre de Bruxelles
Academic advisors	Charles Oberling, Wilhelm Bernhard
Notable awards	Rik et Nel Wouters Award (1969), presented by Queen Fabiola of Belgium for Cancer Research. President of the Electron Microscopy Society of America in 1976

Etienne de Harven, MD is a Belgian-born pathologist and electron microscopist. Born in Brussels, he did most of his work in New York City, Paris and Toronto. He did pioneering research on viruses, mostly related to murine leukemia. He is former President of the Electron Microscopy Society of America (now Microscopy Society of America).

De Harven obtained his medical degree from the University of Brussels. He later worked at the Institute of Cancer of Villejuif under Charles Oberling and Wilhelm Bernhard, where he made pioneering obvervations of the structure of centrioles.

He was subsequently hired by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he worked alongside Charlotte Friend and studied viruses, mostly in mice systems and the causation and incidence of leukemia and other malignant diseases related to those viruses. Later, he provided the first description of a viral budding. While at Sloan-Kettering, de Harven was part of a team which discovered "virus-like particles" in cells taken from patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease. He became professor of cell biology at the University of Cornell and later of pathology at the University of Toronto, where he researched the marking of antigens on the surface of lymphocytes.

As former President of the Microscopy Society of America, he published several papers, mostly related to Cancer Pathologies and electron microscopy procedures for viral explorations.

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