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Dr. J. Michael Bishop

Dr. J. Michael Bishop

1936 - 2026

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Dr. J. Michael Bishop, an immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work to identify proto-oncogenes, or genes that can cause cancer, died March 20, 2026, of pneumonia in San Francisco at the age of 90.Bishop was among the first scientists to...

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