Joseph Sambrook

Joseph Sambrook
Born(1939-03-01)1 March 1939
Liverpool, England
Died14 June 2019(2019-06-14) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Australia
Alma materAustralian National University
Known forLaboratory manual Molecular Cloning, work on oncoviruses
AwardsVictorian Government Leadership and Innovation Award, Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Doctoral studentsKim Orth[1]

Joseph Frank Sambrook (1 March 1939 – 14 June 2019[2]) was a British molecular biologist known for his studies of DNA oncoviruses and the molecular biology of normal and cancerous cells.

  1. ^ Orth K (July 2018). "My winding trail while fulfilling my love for science and family". J Biol Chem. 293 (27): 10435–10437. doi:10.1074/jbc.AW118.003225. PMC 6036213. PMID 29643182.
  2. ^ Dunn, Ashley; Johnstone, Ricky W.; Stillman, Bruce (October 2019). "Joseph F. Sambrook (1939–2019)". Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 26 (10): 846–847. doi:10.1038/s41594-019-0311-1. PMID 31548725. S2CID 202733537.