Bob Weinberg and cancer

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Channel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Bob Weinberg is a Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Weinberg lab is known for its discoveries of the first human oncogene -- the ras oncogene that causes normal cells to form tumors, and the isolation of the first known tumor suppressor gene - the Rb gene.

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