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Robert Weinberg

1942 - Today

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Robert Allan Weinberg (born November 11, 1942) is an American biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Professor. His research is in the area of oncogenes and the genetic basis of human cancer. Robert Weinberg is also affiliated with the Broad Institute and is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Weinberg and Eric Lander, a colleague at M.I.T., are co-founders of Verastem, a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer by targeting cancer stem cells. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Weinberg is the 436th most popular biologist (up from 887th in 2019), the 3,803rd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,465th in 2019) and the 76th most popular American Biologist. Learn more about Robert Weinberg's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Robert Weinberg ranks 436 out of 1,097. Before him are Ivan Martinov, Paul Gervais, Wilhelm Roux, Roderick Murchison, Juan Ignacio Molina, and Arthur Cronquist. After him are Mary Elizabeth Barber, John Stevens Henslow, Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, Rudolf Weigl, Oscar Hertwig, and Adrien-Henri de Jussieu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Robert Weinberg ranks 242. Before him are Federico Lombardi, Petar Nadoveza, Karen Hantze Susman, Curtis Mayfield, Hayedeh, and Richard Roundtree. After him are Gabriele Veneziano, Jorge Ben, Rinus Israël, Richard Bohringer, Brian Kernighan, and Lima.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Weinberg ranks 3,803 out of 20,380. Before him are Peter Krause (1965), Eric Schmidt (1955), Dermot Mulroney (1963), Richard Beymer (1938), Arthur Cronquist (1919), and Robert Wisdom (1953). After him are Don Bluth (1937), Chloë Grace Moretz (1997), Andy Weir (1972), Florence Owens Thompson (1903), Jim Bausch (1906), and Ignacio Zaragoza (1829).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Robert Weinberg ranks 76. Before him are James Bond (1900), Harold E. Varmus (1939), Martha Chase (1927), James P. Allison (1948), Asa Gray (1810), and Arthur Cronquist (1919). After him are Robert Gallo (1937), Luther Burbank (1849), Sewall Wright (1889), Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Robert Sapolsky (1957), and Wilder Penfield (1891).

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