Not to be confused with Michael J. Bishop.
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J. Michael Bishop
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| Born | John Michael Bishop February 22, 1936 |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Virology |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Oncogene Virus |
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John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize.[2] He currently[when?] serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco.[3][4][5][6][7]
Education and early life[edit]
Bishop was born in Pennsylvania. He attended Gettysburg College as an undergraduate, where he was a brother of the Theta-Pi Zeta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He later attended Harvard University where he earned an MD in 1962.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
Bishop began his career working for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health. He then spent a year working for the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg, Germany before joining the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco in 1968.[4] Bishop has remained on the school's faculty since 1968, and was chancellor of the university from 1998-2009.[6] He is Director of the Bishop Lab.[8]
Awards and honors[edit]
Bishop is best known for his Nobel-winning work on retroviral oncogenes. Working with Harold E. Varmus in the 1980s, he discovered the first human oncogene, c-Src. Their findings allowed the understanding of how malignant tumors are formed from changes to the normal genes of a cell. These changes can be produced by viruses, by radiation, or by exposure to some chemicals.[5][9][10][11]
Bishop is also a recipient of National Medal of Science in 2003.[7] That same year, his book "How to win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science" was published. He was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2008.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Professor J Michael Bishop ForMemRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-10-21.
- ^ NCI Visuals Online: Image Details. Visualsonline.cancer.gov. Retrieved on 2013-11-24.
- ^ Nobel autobiography
- ^ a b Autobiography on UCSF Website Archived August 10, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Nobel Prize press release
- ^ a b Susan Desmond-Hellmann named UC San Francisco chancellor
- ^ a b National Medal of Science details
- ^ Bishop Lab. Hooper.ucsf.edu. Retrieved on 2013-11-24. Archived December 2, 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Michael Bishop archival collection at UCSF
- ^ J. Michael Bishop at AccesExcellence.org
- ^ J. Michael Bishop's lecture: "Cancer: The rise of the genetic paradigm"
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ASCB Presidents 1996 |
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