Bernard Moss coined the term "virokine" but is best known for research on the poxvirus, a family of viruses that cause diseases including smallpox but not chickenpox which is a herpesvirus.
He coined the term "virokine" to describe a class of these proteins that have high sequence identity to human cytokines. Moss is best known for research on the poxvirus family. Poxviridae is a family of viruses. Diseases associated with this family include smallpox. The similarly named disease chickenpox is not a true poxvirus and is actually caused by the herpesvirus varicella zoster. 
