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J Michael Bishop

J. Michael Bishop

University of California, San Francisco
Canada Gairdner Award Nobel Prize

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Dr. Bishop received his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Harvard provided Bishop with his first research experience and introduced him to the study of animal viruses. Bishop completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General Hospital and pursued a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. In 1968, he accepted a faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco and remains there to this day.

At UCSF, Bishop began to study Rous sarcoma virus. He was soon joined by Harold Varmus. Together, they made the seminal discovery that retroviruses can hijack genes that control normal cell growth and convert them to cancer causing oncogenes. Bishop and Varmus were honored with the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this research.

Bishop served as chancellor of UCSF from 1998-2009. He is involved in many aspects of research advocacy and he continues to enjoy running his research lab and teaching students at UCSF.

Talks with this Speaker

The Discovery: Evidence for a Genetic Origin of Cancer

Dr. J. Michael Bishop tells us the story of his Nobel Prize-winning discovery of cellular proto-oncogenes. (Talk recorded in August 2018)

Genetic origin of cancer: J Michael Bishop
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:09:43

How I Became a Scientist: An Unlikely Journey to Science

J. Michael Bishop relates his unlikely journey from student a rural two-room schoolhouse to Nobel-prize winning professor. (Talk recorded in June 2011)

J. Michael Bishop: How I Became a Scientist
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 10:59

Oncogenes: A Genetic Paradigm for Cancer

J. Michael Bishop begins with a historical review of the experiments that showed that normal genes can be mutated and become cancer causing oncogenes. (Talk recorded in June 2011)

  • Part 1: Forging a Genetic Paradigm for Cancer
    Part 1: Forging a Genetic Paradigm for Cancer
    Audience:
    • Student
    • Researcher
    • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 28:36
  • Part 2: The Cancer Genome: Challenge and Promise
    Part 2: The Cancer Genome: Challenge and Promise
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 43:32
  • Part 3: The Cancer Genome and Therapeutics
    Part 3: The Cancer Genome and Therapeutics
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 40:54

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