J. Michael Bishop (1936- )

Awarded the Prize “for his discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.”

American microbiologist. Bishop was born on February 22, 1936 at York, Pennsylvania. In 1962 he obtained the M.D. at Harvard University. In 1964 he moved to the National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, as research associate in virology, later becoming senior investigator (1966) assistant professor (1968). He was appointed the professor of microbiology immunology at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco in 1972, in 1981 he became director of the G. W. Hooper Research Foundation.