Alicia Zhou, Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Research Institute, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I’m deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mike Bishop – a leading figure in cancer biology whose impact extends far beyond the Nobel Prize.
As a postdoc in Andrei Goga’s lab at University of California, San Francisco, I had the privilege to be part of joint weekly lab meetings with Mike and his lab.
Every Tuesday, we’d trek into the conference room on HSW15, grab an Arizmendi pastry, and sit back to discuss science. Those sessions were quietly formative – there were no eureka moments or lightning strikes.
It was just the simple, repetitive and rigorous motion of moving an innovative idea forward. In those rooms, Mike was just another scientific mind, amongst peers, who was challenging all of us to hone our craft to perfection.
Great scientists don’t just make discoveries – they influence how others think. Mike did that for generations. Grateful to have learned, even briefly, in his orbit.”
University of California, San Francisco shared a post on LinkedIn:
“J. Michael Bishop, UCSF’s Nobel-Prize winning former chancellor who died at 90, helped found the modern field of cancer biology.
He showed how cancer is rooted in the genes, laying the foundation for today’s targeted therapies.
He was a dedicated mentor to generations of scientists, and he shaped the UCSF we know today.”
Read more about his life and legacy.”
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