AIDS Lecture by Robert A. Weinberg

About Speaker
Robert A. Weinberg
Founding Member, MIT Center for Cancer Research

Member, Whitehead Institute Daniel K. Ludwig and American Cancer Society Professor for Cancer Research Department of Biology

Robert A. Weinberg has earned some of the top honors in his field. Most recently, he won the 2006 Landon-AACR Prize for Basic and Translational Cancer Research. He is also a 1997 National Medal of Science awardee.

Weinberg's laboratory discovered the first human oncogene and the first tumor suppressor gene. Today, much of his research focuses on new models of breast cancer development including the stages of tumor invasiveness and metastasis.

He earned his Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 1969, and was one of the Founding Members of the MIT Center for Cancer Research in 1973. He was appointed a professor at MIT in 1982, the same year he joined the Whitehead Institute. Weinberg was named American Cancer Society Research Professor in 1985 and received the Daniel K. Ludwig Professorship for Cancer Research in 1997. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine.

From Outbreak to Epidemic

This lecture was conducted by Dr.Bisola.0.0jikutu MD M.P.H Director of the Office of International Programs Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School,She working has a infectious disease specialist ,concentrating on AIDs disease.She talks about How first case of HIV from Lecture

In 1981, homosexual men began arriving at U.S. clinics with rare cancers and infections, spurring public anxiety about the mysterious illness that would one day be known as AIDS. See how the medical community worked with sectors in public health, science and advocacy groups to mobilize in response to the deadly epidemic