Sahana Sitaraman in The Scientist:
David Baltimore, a celebrated molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, passed away on 6 September 2025 at age 87. Through a career that spanned more than half a century, he influenced the trajectory of many fields in biology, from unraveling the molecular mechanisms of the human immunodeficiency virus to obtaining a deeper understanding of cancer. He published over 600 academic papers throughout his career.
“David Baltimore’s contributions as a virologist, discerning fundamental mechanisms and applying those insights to immunology, to cancer, to AIDS, have transformed biology and medicine,” said Thomas Rosenbaum, a physicist, and current president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in a statement . “David’s profound influence as a mentor to generations of students and postdocs, his generosity as a colleague, his leadership of great scientific institutions, and his deep involvement in international efforts to define ethical boundaries for biological advances fill out an extraordinary intellectual life.”
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