Steven Rosenberg

Steven Rosenberg
Born (1940-08-02) August 2, 1940 (age 84)
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Harvard University
Scientific career
Thesis The proteins of human erythrocyte membranes  (1969)

Steven A. Rosenberg (born 2 August 1940[1]) is an American cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He pioneered the development of immunotherapy that has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies and the development of gene therapy. He is the first researcher to successfully insert foreign genes into humans.

  1. ^ "Steven A. Rosenberg Works to Unmask Cancer's Achilles Heel - the ASCO Post".