윌리엄 C. 캠벨

소개

윌리엄 세실 캠벨(영어: William Cecil Campbell, 1930년 6월 28일 ~ ) 박사는 아일랜드의 생화학자, 기생충학자이다. 2015년 노벨 생리학·의학상 수상자이다.

William Cecil Campbell is an Irish and American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called avermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis, among other parasitic diseases affecting animals and humans. Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and has become a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.