Renato Dulbecco dies at 97; 1975 Nobel Prize winner in medicine
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 01:00
in Health & Medicine
Renato Dulbecco broke new ground in the study of viruses and cancer at Caltech and later was a founding member of the Salk Institute in La Jolla.Dr. Renato Dulbecco, an Italian American virologist who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for demonstrating how certain types of viruses invade mammalian cells to cause cancer, died of natural causes Sunday at his home in La Jolla. He was 97.