David Baltimore Election Year 2008 California Institute of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd., MC 140-18
Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A. Tel: (626) 395-3581
Current Positions
President Emeritus and Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology at Caltech
Education
B.A., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Penn. (with High Honors in Chemistry)(1960)
Ph.D., Rockefeller University (1964)
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1963-1964)
Postdoctoral fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx (1964-1965)
Research Associate, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1965-1968)
Associate Professor of Microbiology (1968-1972)
Professor of Biology (1972-1990), Institute Professor (1995-1997), Ivan R. Cottrell Professor of Molecular Biology and Immunology (1994-1997), American Cancer Society Research Professor (1973-1983), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Director (1982-1990), Member (1982-1991), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
President (1990-1991), Professor (1990-1994), The Rockefeller University
President, California Institute of Technology (1997-2006)
President Emeritus and Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology, Caltech (2006-)
Specialties
Virology, Immunology
Awards and Honors
First recipient of the Gustave Stern Award in Virology (1970)
Warren Triennial Prize from the Massachusetts General Hospital (1971)
Eli Lilly and Co. Award in Microbiology and Immunology (1971)
National Academy of Sciences' United States Steel Award in Molecular Biology (1974)
Elected Member, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1974)
Elected Member, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)
Gairdner Foundation Annual Award (1974)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1975)
Elected Member, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1978)
Elected Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980)
Honorary Fellowship, American Medical Writers Association (1985)
Elected Foreign Member, The Royal Society (England)(1987)
1987 Honorary Membership, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Elected Member, the Institute of Medicine (1988)
Honorary Member, Japanese Biochemical Society (1991)
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (1992)
Member, American Philosophical Society (1997)
Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology (1998)
Fellow, Association for Women in Science (1999)
National Medal of Science (1999)
Elected Foreign Associate Member, French Academy of Sciences (2000)
Los Angeles World Affairs Council Board of Directors (2000)
Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2000)
Achievement Award in Basic Biotechnology from The Biotechnology Center at New York University (2002)
American Medical Association Scientific Achievement Award (2002)
City of Medicine Award (2003)
Einstein Medal from The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities (2004)
President-Elect, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006)
Honorary Degrees: Swarthmore (1976); Mount Holyoke (1987); Mount Sinai (1990); Bard (1990); Helsinki (1990); Columbia (2004); Yale (2004); Rockefeller (2004); Harvard (2005)