Michael Bishop

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American microbiologist (1936–)

Bishop attended Gettysburg College and studied medicine at Harvard University. In 1962 he secured an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and in 1964 he moved to the National Institutes of Health, Washington DC, as research associate in virology, later becoming senior investigator (1966) and assistant professor (1968). He was appointed professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, in 1972, and in 1981 he became director of the G. W. Hooper Research Foundation.

Bishop, working in collaboration with Harold Varmus, demonstrated for the first time that cancer-causing genes (oncogenes) carried by certain viruses are derived from normal genes present in the cells of their host, known as proto-oncogenes. This work by the team at the University of California, published in 1976, led to the discovery of many more such cellular genes, and represented a major advance in cancer research. In recognition of this, Bishop and Varmus were jointly awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

American microbiologist. He shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for discovering a sequence of genes that can cause cancer when mutated.

Michael Bishop may refer to:

• Michael Bishop (businessman) (born 1942), British businessman
• Michael Bishop (author) (born 1945), American science fiction/fantasy author
• Michael Bishop (bassist), American bassist, member of GWAR and Kepone
• Michael Bishop (gridiron football) (born 1976), American athlete, quarterback in the NFL, the CFL, and the Arena Football League
• Michael J. Bishop, Grammy Award-winning musical engineer
• Mike Bishop (Michigan politician) (born 1967), Michigan State Senate Majority Leader
• Bishop (Alien), a.k.a. Michael Bishop, creator of the Bishop series of androids in the Alien film universe
• Mike Bishop (baseball), former Major League Baseball player
• Michael Bishop (academic), author and academic
• J. Michael Bishop (born 1936), American immunologist & microbiologist

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