Bert Vogelstein(born 1949) is a noted cancer researcher. His first degree was in mathematics graduating summa cum laude in 1970 from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest was more in medicine and he received his M.D. from John Hopkins University four years later. He did his Pediatrics residency there. He has received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and other awards for his research. His recent work has often concerned oncogenes. 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The University of Pennsylvania (Penn is the nickname used by the university itself; UPenn is also common) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. ... The Gairdner Foundation International Award is given annually at a special dinner to three to six people for outstanding discoveries or contributions to medical science. ... Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers that have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. ... The Prince of Asturias Awards (in Spanish: Premios Príncipe de Asturias) is a series of annual prizes given in Spain by the Fundación Príncipe de Asturias to individuals from around the world who make notable achievements in the sciences, humanities, or public affairs. ... An oncogene is a gene that can cause a cell to develop into a tumor cell, possibly resulting in cancer. ...
Vogelstein's sneakers are covered with paint and they look like he might have worn them while slapping a second coat on his wrought-iron porch railings.
Vogelstein imagined that tumor suppressors might be involved in human cancers because cancer cells frequently contain chromosomes that are broken or missing large chunks.
Vogelstein started his search on chromosome 17, looking at genes that are located in a section of the chromosome that is frequently missing in cells from colorectal tumors.
BertVogelstein speaks to an overflow crowd in the TMEC, tracing the history of cancer genetics and describing his new research on chromosomal instability, which he believes may be the origin of colorectal tumors.
BertVogelstein, a Howard Hughes investigator and the Clayton professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University, told the woman's story in his Nov. 21 lecture inaugurating the Harvard Center for Cancer Biology, the Quad-based portion of the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center.
Vogelstein traced the evolution of colorectal cancer genetics from its prehistory in the 19th century to prospects for prevention in the 21st.
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