Bishop, J Michael

JA Witkowski, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002738

1936– American virologist who showed that cancer-causing viruses have mutant versions of genes found in normal cells.

Keywords: oncogenes; University of California, San Francisco; Nobel Prize

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Further Reading
	Bishop JM (1987) The molecular genetics of cancer. Science 235: 305–311.
	Bishop JM (1996) The discovery of proto-oncogenes. FASEB Journal 10: 362–364.
	Stehelin D, Varmus HE, Bishop JM and Vogt PK (1976) DNA related to the transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA. Nature 260: 170–173.
	book Weinberg RA (1996) "The revolution of'76 – the enemy within: discovery of the proto-oncogene". Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer, Chap. 9. New York: Harmony Books.