David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American
biologist,
university administrator, and 1975
Nobel laureate in
Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the President Emeritus and Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. He also served as president of
Rockefeller University from 1990 to 1991, and was president of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. Dr. Baltimore has profoundly influenced international
science, including key contributions to
immunology,
virology,
cancer research,
biotechnology, and
recombinant DNA research, through his accomplishments as a researcher, administrator, educator, and public advocate for
science and
engineering. He has trained many doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, several of whom have gone on to notable and distinguished research careers. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards, including the
U.S. National Medal of Science in 1999. Dr. Baltimore currently sits on the Board of Sponsors for the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is a consultant to the
Science Philanthropy Alliance]