Dr. David Baltimore
President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan
Professor of Biology
California Institute of Technology
David Baltimore is a scientific advisor to and board member of a number of leading companies in the biotechnology field, including Amgen and Medimmune, and is a Director of the Swiss investment company BB Biotech.
He has been a major figure in Washington as head of the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee. Professor Baltimore has received numerous honors during his distinguished career, including the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 for discoveries
concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell. He was awarded the 1999 National Medal of Science and received the 2002 AMA Scientific Achievement Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He is also an elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society (England). Professor Baltimore was a long-time member of the MIT faculty, then served as Professor and President of the Rockefeller University and returned to MIT to become one of twelve Institute Professors.
He was also the Founding Director of the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Baltimore received his B.A. with high honors in chemistry from Swarthmore College and received his Ph.D. in Biology from The Rockefeller University.
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