The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989
Awarded on: 1989-10-09
"for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"
Affiliations:
- University of California School of Medicine – San Francisco, CA, USA
J. Michael Bishop
Born: 1936-02-22 in York, PA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American immunologist and microbiologist (1936–2026)
Biography
John Michael Bishop was an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. He was a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.