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  David Baltimore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and a winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Baltimore is admired by many in the scientific community for standing behind a junior faculty member at great personal and professional cost.
Baltimore was appointed president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1997, though he will be leaving this post at the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
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 Baltimore, David
Baltimore received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania (B.A., 1960), and went on to study animal virology at the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University) in New York City, where he obtained his doctorate in 1964, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.
Baltimore joined the faculty of MIT in 1968, accompanied by Alice Huang, a postdoctoral fellow who had worked on vesicular stomatitus virus (VSV) at the Salk Institute.
Baltimore became director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983 and in 1990 left to become president of Rockefeller University.
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 David Baltimore: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) biologist and a winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize (An annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace) for Physiology or Medicine.
Baltimore was born in New York City (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center).
Baltimore has profound influence on national policy in matters concerning recombinant DNA research and the AIDS (A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles) epidemic.
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 Dr. David Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Caltech’s seventh president, David Baltimore is perhaps one of the most influential biologists of his generation.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1964, Baltimore held postdoctoral positions at MIT and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, followed by a three-year appointment at the Salk Institute.
An early advocate of federal AIDS research, Baltimore was appointed in 1996 to head the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee.
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 FasterCures: David Baltimore
David Baltimore is President of the California Institute of Technology and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize for his work in virology.
Among his accomplishments, Baltimore was founding director of MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, President of Rockefeller University and head of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee.
Baltimore also earned the 1970 Gustave Stern award in virology, the 1971 Eli Lilly and Co. award in microbiology and immunology, the 1999 National Medal of Science, and the 2000 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
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David Baltimore, Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
Baltimore, Temin and Renato Dulbecco shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
From 1982-1990, Baltimore was a director, and one of the founders of MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
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 Baltimore Delivers Hughes Talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baltimore said that NF-Kappa B is a transcription factor stored in the cytoplasm of the cell involved in responses to stimuli, typically inflammation or infection.
Baltimore said the atmosphere at Caltech was a little cozier because of that institution’s smaller size, Wan added.
Baltimore served as a professor of biology at MIT and founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research before becoming president of Caltech.
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 David Baltimore Biography / Biography of David Baltimore World of Genetics Biography
David Baltimore was awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, at the age of 37, for his groundbreaking work on retrovirus replication.
Baltimore pioneered work on the molecular biology of animal viruses, especially poliovirus, and his investigations of how viruses interact with cells led, in 1970, to the discovery of a novel enzyme, reverse transcriptase.
Baltimore's achievement had profound implications for the scientific community because it challenged the central dogma of molecular biology, which stated that the flow of genetic information was unidirectional running from DNA to RNA to proteins.
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 Whitehead Institute - David Baltimore Tackles Issues of Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1975 for “discoveries concerning the interaction of tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell.” More recently, he and his colleagues have been recognized for their work leading to the development of the cancer drug Gleevec.
Baltimore also emphasized the dependence of scientific enterprises on personal integrity and the growing importance of trust as science has become increasingly collaborative.
Baltimore went on to describe research by Jean Ensminger, an economist and professor of anthropology at Caltech.
www.wi.mit.edu /news/archives/2002/db_0219.html   (867 words)

  
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David Baltimore is one of the nation's most distinguished biologists and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for his work in virology.
Baltimore has served as an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the founding director of MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (1982-1990); and the president of Rockefeller University.
Baltimore has served as head of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee, and as co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine's Committee on a National Strategy for AIDS.
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 David Baltimore Named As New Caltech President
"David Baltimore is perhaps the most influential living biologist, and surely one of the most accomplished," Moore said on announcing the appointment.
Baltimore has also been a major figure in Washington as head of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee, and also in 1986 as co-chair of the National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine's committee on a National Strategy for AIDS.
Baltimore becomes the 24th Nobel Laureate to be associated with the California Institute of Technology.
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 Ahead of the Curve: CHAPTER ONE
She and her husband had moved from Queens to Great Neck when David was in the first grade because they wanted the best education for their two sons; they moved back to the city as soon as the kids went to college.
David didn't like killing mice (even when he lived in a mouse-infested apartment years later, he threw washcloths over the mice caught in traps and waited for his roommate to throw them away), but at Jackson he managed.
Swarthmore was politically liberal, and David's mother and her parents had always sympathized with European socialist movements (though they never explicitly labeled themselves socialists or Communists), and that childhood influence shaped David's own liberal political philosophy.
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 Baltimore, David on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
BALTIMORE, MD -- The Twins' Cristian Guzman can't catch a hit by the Orioles' David Segui in the fifth inning of their game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 8, 2004.
BALTIMORE, MD -- Baltimore's Melvin Mora slides under the tag of Anaheim short stop David Eckstein at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday, May 28, 2003.
BALTIMORE, MD -- Boston center fielder Johnny Damon leaps to rob the Orioles' David Seguia of a home run in the sixth inning of their game on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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 Dr. David Baltimore -- Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Baltimore, who has been the president of California Institute of Technology since 1997, is one of the world's most influential biologists.
Baltimore and Howard Temin (with Renato Dulbecco, for related research) shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery, which has greatly expanded scientists' uunderstanding of retroviruses such as HIV.
Baltimore's numerous honors include the 1970 Gustave Stern Award in Virology, 1971 Eli Lilly and Co. Award in Microbiology and Immunology, 1999 National Medal of Science, and 2000 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize.
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 David Baltimore Biography / Biography of David Baltimore Main Biography
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The American virologist David Baltimore (born 1938) received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on retrovirus biochemistry and its significance for cancer research.
David Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of Richard I. and Gertrude (Lipschitz) Baltimore.
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 Honoring David Baltimore - June 25, 2004 - BenchMarks - The Rockefeller University
David Baltimore, who received his Ph.D. from Rockefeller in 1964, last week became the first Rockefeller University alumnus to receive the Honorary Doctor of Science degree, the university’s most distinguished award.
“David Baltimore began his career at this institution and rose rapidly to become the most influential biologist of his generation,” said President Paul Nurse at the June 8 Convocation ceremony.
Baltimore, who is currently president of the California Institute of Technology, was president of Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991.
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 AllRefer.com - David Baltimore (Genetics And Genetic Engineering, Biography) - Encyclopedia
David Baltimore[bOl´timOr, –mur] Pronunciation Key, 1938–;, American microbiologist, b.
A paper he coauthored was said to contain fraudulent data from another author, Dr. Thereza Imanishi-Kari, and Baltimore was criticized for his vehement defense of the paper despite the evidence.
In 1996, an appeals panel overturned the verdict of the original investigating office, the federal Office of Scientific Integrity (now the Office of Reasearch Integrity), and Baltimore and Imanishi-Kari were exonerated.
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 Biographical Sketch of David Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Baltimore is one of the nation's most distinguished biologists and leaders of science.
Baltimore remained on the Rockefeller faculty until 1994, when he returned to MIT as the Ivan R. Cottrell Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology, and then Institute Professor.
A leading immunologist commented that the choice of Baltimore was brilliant, explaining that he has as good an overview of the fundamental biological questions that have to be addressed as anybody in the world.
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 Baltimore rocks (... and raps ... and scats) - baltimoresun.com
Baltimore has been home to a surprising number of musicians in a variety of genres.
Ellen Naomi Cohen was born in 1941 in Baltimore.
Baltimore is responsible for the "Thong Song," or, at least, a Baltimorean is responsible for the 2000 hit that glorified the briefest of briefs.
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 David Baltimore Case - Boston Globe Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baltimore is director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, passionately defended the team of which he was a part.
Baltimore yesterday characterized as "unfortunate" his September 1986 letter, in which he said a certain test used in the experiment had not worked as described in the paper.
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 10/26/98 WITCH HUNT IN THE GROVES OF ACADEME
Baltimore was widely admired as a brilliant scientist and an influential teacher.
Baltimore, who returned to MIT after resigning the Rockefeller University presidency, was named president of the California Institute of Technology in 1996.
Baltimore's reputation is now largely restored, but the lingering question is whether his defiance, his unwillingness to compromise, might have prolonged the sad affair.
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 David Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The world was gifted with one of the most distinguished leaders of science in 1938, the year David Baltimore was born in New York City.
Baltimore plunged head-on into the molecular study of animal viruses, and for quite some time focused on the poliovirus.
Baltimore became the president of the Rockefeller University in July 1990.
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 World's top geneticists to meet at IGM symposium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Baltimore - whom science writer Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times calls "one of the most influential biologists of this century" - shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco for their work on tumor viruses.
Baltimore's work was critical to the eventual isolation of the AIDS virus HIV-1 (a retrovirus) and the development of modern tools of molecular biology.
Baltimore is also widely known as a man of fierce integrity.
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 David Baltimore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist and a winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Physiology orMedicine.
For most people outside of science, Baltimore is best known for his role in a scientific misconduct case.
Baltimore was forcedto retract a paper that he published with Thereza Imanishi-Kari in 1986, afterImanishi-Kari was accused of fabricating data.
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