Microbiologist and cancer researcher J. Michael Bishop, MD, died of pneumonia March 20 at age 90, according to a March 22 report from The Washington Post.
Dr. Bishop and his colleague Harold Varmus, MD, won the Nobel Prize in 1989 for their work showing how cancer-causing genes are not introduced through viruses and instead are present in healthy cells, the report said.
He most recently served as chancellor emeritus, professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology, and director of the George Williams Hooper Foundation at the University of California San Francisco.
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