Robert Weinberg is Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in the Department of Biology at MIT and a member of MIT's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.  His laboratory was the first to recognize the existence of human oncogenes which are responsible for converting normal cells into cancer cells and also isolated the first human tumor suppressor gene.  Weinberg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of a long list of honors and scientific prizes, including the National Medal of Science.  He received his Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 1969.

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Home page of Weinberg's lab at the MIT Whitehead Institute

Robert Weinberg's home page on the MIT Biology Department site

Robert A. Weinberg, "How Cancer Arises," Scientific American (September 1996) (full text).

"Genomics:  Journey to the Center of Biology," by Eric S. Lander and Robert A. Weinberg, on Britannica.com (originally published in Science).

Description of Weinberg's Racing to the Beginning of the Road:  The Search for the Origin of Cancer on the MIT Press site.

Weinberg's listing as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Weinberg's comments on a "hot paper in telomerase" in The Scientist (October 11, 1999).

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