J. Michael Bishop | |
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Born | John Michael Bishop February 22, 1936 York, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Alma mater | Gettysburg College (Bachelors) Harvard University (MD) |
Known for | Oncogene Virus |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Virology |
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Website | profiles |
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.[1] He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.[2][3][4][5][6]