David Baltimore (1938-2025)

Awarded the Prize “for his discoveries concerning the interaction between tumour viruses the genetic material of the cell.”

American virologist. David Baltimore was born on March 7, 1938 in New York. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1960 and took his Ph.D. at the Rockefeller University in 1964. From 1968 to 1972 he was Associate Professor of Microbiology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, becoming Professor of Biology in 1972. In 1973, he became American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology. David Baltimore died on September 6, 2025 in Woods Hole, MA, USA.