David Baltimore
David Baltimore
David Baltimoreis an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technologyfrom 1997 to 2006, and is currently the President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. He also served as president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, and was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Dr. Baltimore has profoundly influenced international science, including key contributions to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 March 1938
CountryUnited States of America
Were we to go with 60 percent at NIH reviews, many of us scientists would be very uncomfortable with the quality.
In the last few years these efforts have been remarkably successful. It has been possible to identify both genes and the proteins involved in cancer induction.
This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history,
AIDS is the most potent and destructive scourge right now in terms of diseases,