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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 .
J. Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936, York, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an American virologist and cowinner (with Harold Varmus) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1989 for achievements in clarifying the origins of cancer.
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J. Michael Bishop is University Professor, Director Emeritus of the G.W. Hooper Research Foundation and Chancellor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Michael was born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, and educated at Gettysburg College, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Feb 22, 2012 · J. Michael Bishop. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989. Born: 22 February 1936, York, PA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA. Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”. Prize share: 1/2.
Learn about the life and achievements of J. Michael Bishop, a Nobel laureate and former chancellor of UCSF. He pioneered the study of retroviruses and oncogenes, and led the expansion of UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Learn about the life and work of J. Michael Bishop, who shared the Nobel Prize with Harold Varmus for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. See his sketch of science and his biography on the Lindau Mediatheque.
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J. Michael Bishop gave his Nobel Laureate Revisiting Lecture 2004 at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 12 May 2004. He was introduced by Professor Björn Vennström.
