J. Michael Bishop - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	22-February-1936
Place of Birth	York (York County, Pennsylvania, United States of America)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	John Michael Bishop
Profession	Virologist
John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize. He currently serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco.

Awards by J. Michael Bishop

Check all the awards nominated and won by J. Michael Bishop.

2003

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(For his discovery that the genes that determine the cancer-causing potential of certain viruses are counterparts of and derived from essential cellular genes, and that derangement of these cellular genes can lead to growth aberrations and cancer.)

1989

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine	(for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes)

1984

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For research on viral and cellular oncogenes that extends our understanding of the molecular basis of human cancer.)

1982

Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research	(For his elegant elucidation of the nature of oncogenes, and his contribution to the discovery that these genes are present in normal cells.)

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