Robert A. Weinberg
EDUCATION:
1960-1964 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, S.B., Biology
1964-1965 and 1966-1969 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Ph.D., Biology
HONORS:
American Cancer Society Massachusetts Division Research Scholar, 1974-1977
Rita Allen Foundation Scholar, 1976-1980
Massachusetts American Cancer Society: National Divisional Award, 1982
Discover Magazine Scientist of the Year, 1982
Warren Triennial Prize, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1983
Robert Koch Medal, Robert Koch Foundation, Germany, 1983
Hammer Cancer Foundation Award, 1984
National Academy of Sciences, U. S. Steel Foundation Award in Molecular Biology, 1984
Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research, 1984
Howard Taylor Ricketts Award, University of Chicago Medical Center, 1984
Brown-Hazen Award, New York State Department of Health, 1984
Ph.D., honoris causa, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1984
Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 1984
American Cancer Society Professor of Biology, 1985
Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 1985
Katherine Berkan Judd Award, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1986
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987
Sloan Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 1987
Ph.D., honoris causa, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1988
Simon B. Shubitz Award, University of Chicago Medical School, 1989
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989
Sc.D., honoris causa, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, 1989
Lucy Wortham James Award, Society for Surgical Oncology, 1989
Distinguished Basic Scientist Award, Milken Family Medical Foundation, 1990
Lila Gruber Cancer Research Award, American Academy of Dermatology, 1990
Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research, 1992
Foreign Member-Medical Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1992
Gairdner Foundation International Awards for Achievements in Medical Science, 1992
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 1992
Harvey Prize, American Society for Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 1994
William Johnson Walker Prize, Museum of Science, Boston, 1995
Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize, 1995
G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research, 1996
Janssen Prize, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, New Jersey, 1996
Max Delbruck Medal of the Max-Delbruck Center, Berlin, 1996
Daniel K. Ludwig Professorship for Cancer Research, 1997
Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation, 1997
National Medal of Science, 1997
Keio Medical Science Foundation Prize, 1997
Elizabeth A. Wood Science Writing Award, American Crystallographic Association, 1999
Killian Faculty Achievement Award, 1999
The City of Medicine Award, 1999
The Order Pour le Mˇrite for Sciences and the Arts, 1999
Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award, MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2000
American Philosophical Society, 2000
Institute of Medicine, 2000
POSITIONS HELD:
1965-1966 Instructor in Biology, Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, AL
1969-1970 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Ernest Winocour, Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel
1970-1972 Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Renato Dulbecco, Salk Institute
1972-1973 Research Associate with Dr. David Baltimore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1973-1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Cancer Research, MIT
1976-1982 Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Center for Cancer Research, MIT
1982-present Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1982-present Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
ADVISORY BOARDS:
1988-1997t Scientific Advisory Board Member, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
1989 Committee on Responsible Conduct of Research, U.S. Institute of Medicine
1989-1991 National Council Member, Federation of American Scientists
1990-present Board of Scientific Advisors, Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc.
1990-present Honorary Director, American Cancer Society, Massachusetts Division
1990-present Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, Weizmann Institute, Israel
1991-present Awards Assembly Member, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, Inc.
1991-1995 Research Advisory Board, Massachusetts General Hospital
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Chairman, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences Panel on Oncogene Research, 1984
Member, Institute of Medical Committee on Science Conduct, 1988-1989
Chairman, M.I.T. Medical Consumers Advisory Committee, 1988-present
Chairman, Federation of American Scientists (F.A.S.) Committee on Biological Warfare, 1989-1991
Organizer/Chairman, UCLA Symposia at Taos, New Mexico, 1989
Organizing Committee, 14th Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium on Cancer Research Nuclear Process and Oncogenes, 1990
Organizer/Chairman, Preuss Foundation Meeting, Cambridge, MA, 1990
Organizer/Chairman, American Academy of Cancer Research (AACR) Meeting on Negative Controls on Cell Growth and Their Breakdown During the Pathogenesis of Cancer, October, 1991
Chairman, M.I.T. Committee on Indirect Costs and Graduate Student Tuition, 1991-1992
PERSONAL:
Robert Weinberg was born November 11, 1942, in Pittsburgh, PA. He is married to Amy Shulman Weinberg