Robert Weinberg
American
MIT (Ph.D)
- Oncogenes
- Tumor suppressor genes
- The Hallmarks of Cancer
- The biology of cancer[1]
- NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1984)
- Max Delbrück Medal (1996)
- Keio Medical Science Prize (1997)
- Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1999)
- Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2013)
- Japan Prize (2021)
Career[edit]
Weinberg earned SB in Biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and PhD in biology from the same institute in 1969. He was an instructor in biology at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (1965–1966), and a postdoc in Ernest Winocour's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science (1969–1970) and in Renato Dulbecco's lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies (1970–1972). He joined MIT in 1972.[7]
Awards and honors[edit]
In 1985, Weinberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.[14] Weinberg won the National Medal of Science and the Keio Medical Science Prize in 1997. In 1999, he received the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in recognition of his valuable and pioneering contributions in the field of Biomedical Sciences and for his productive trajectory related to the genetic and molecular basis of neoplastic disease.[15] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2000.[16] He obtained the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 2004 (shared with Roger Y. Tsien), and he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2007 he received an honorary doctorate degree in commemoration of Linnaeus from Uppsala University. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1992.[17] In 2009 he was presented the Hope Funds Award in Basic Research.[18] In 2013 he was awarded the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for his work [19] and in 2021 he received the Japan Prize.[20]
Retractions[edit]
To this day Weinberg has had five research papers retracted where he is listed as a co-author. The retractions include one paper in Cell, one in Cancer Cell, two in Genes & Development and one in Cancer Research.[21][22][23][24]
The reasons given for the retraction of one paper (DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2009.03.04) include: "Falsification/Fabrication of Data" and "Manipulation of Results".