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April 14, 2003
Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop to give talk
on cancer research on April 17
By Tim Stephens
Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop, chancellor of UC San Francisco and
a leading cancer researcher, will give a public talk at UCSC on Thursday,
April 17.
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| J. Michael Bishop directs the G. W. Hooper
Research Foundation at UCSF, which conducts multidisciplinary research
on human disease. |
Bishop's talk, entitled "Cancer: The Rise of the Genetic Paradigm,"
will start at 4 p.m. in the Stage Room at the Colleges Nine/Ten Dining
Commons. There will be a reception immediately after the lecture.
Bishop's talk is the third annual Sinsheimer Distinguished Lecture
in Biology, sponsored this year by the Department of Molecular, Cell
and Developmental Biology. The event is free and open to the public.
Designated parking for this event is in the North Residential Lot,
with shuttle service to the event site.
Bishop is one of the world's foremost medical researchers and an award-winning
teacher. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in medicine/physiology with
Harold Varmus, now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
in New York. They won the award for discovering that normal cells contain
genes that can cause cancer if they malfunction. Their discovery is
widely credited with sparking a revolution in cancer research.
Bishop directs the G. W. Hooper Research Foundation at UCSF, which
conducts multidisciplinary research on human disease. He maintains an
active research lab with a focus on the molecular basis of cancer. His
research aims to determine how normal cells govern their replication
and why cancer cells do not.
A member of the UCSF faculty since 1968, Bishop has twice received
the campus's Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 1994, he was
appointed a University Professor, the highest honor UC can bestow on
a professor in recognition of superior scholarship and teaching.
Bishop's many honors and awards include the Albert Lasker Basic Medical
Research Award, the Armand Hammer Cancer Prize, and the Award for Distinguished
Research in the Biomedical Sciences from the American Association of
Medical Colleges. He is a member of several professional and honorary
societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute
of Medicine, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and is coauthor of three books and nearly 400 scientific papers, publications,
and reviews.
The Sinsheimer Distinguished Lectureship in Biology is supported by
an endowment from UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Emeritus Robert L. Sinsheimer
and his wife, Karen. Robert Sinsheimer, who was chancellor from 1977
to 1987, is a renowned molecular biologist and a member of the National
Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences.
Hosting of the annual lecture alternates between the Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular, Cell
and Developmental Biology.
For more information about the lecture, contact the University Events
Office at
(831) 459-1438.
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