Baruch S. Blumberg Baruch S. Blumberg Election Year 2008 Fox Chase Cancer Center 333 Cottman Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19111 U.S.A. Tel: (215) 728-3164 / Fax: (215) 728-3574
Current Positions
Senior Advisor to the President, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Distinguished Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
President, American Philosophical Society
Education
M.D., Columbia University, U.S.A (1951)
Ph.D., Oxford University, U.K. (1957)
Professional Experience
Scientist, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A
Head, Geographic Medicine and Genetics Section (1957-1964)
Staff, Associate Director for Clinical Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center (1964-)
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania (1977-)
Master, Balliol College, Oxford, University (1989-1994)
Director, NASA Astrobiology Institute (1999-2002)
Specialties
Virology, Genetics, Biochemistry, Astrobiology
Awards and Honors
Elected members, US National Academy of Sciences
Elected members, American Philosophical Society
Elected members, National Inventors Hall of Fame
Nobel Laureate, The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1976)