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David Baltimore’s lecture in city tomorrow

Bangalore: Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, considered one of the world’s most influential biologists, will deliver a lecture on “Micro RNAs in Inflammation and Cancer” on Wednesday at the J.N Tata auditorium at 4.30 p.m.

Prof. Baltimore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975, when he was 37.

He shared the Nobel with Renato Dulbecco and Howard Martin Temin for their discoveries about the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.

The lecture is part of a three-lecture series sponsored by Cell Press, the Massachusetts-based publisher of Cell and other biomedical journals; and TnQ Books and Journals, a Chennai-based company that supplies pre-press design and software solutions to publishers of scientific, technical and medical books and journals.

President Emeritus and the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology, Prof. Baltimore is acknowledged for his profound influence on U.S. science policy concerning DNA research and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Prof. Baltimore has contributed widely to the understanding of cancer, AIDS and the molecular basis of the immune response.

Prof. Baltimore’s research on the poliovirus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had led him to work on other RNA viruses including the process by which cancer-causing RNA viruses manage to infect and permanently alter a healthy cell.

His research provided strong evidence for the process of RNA to DNA conversion, the existence of which had been hypothesised some years earlier.

This breakthrough, which won Prof. Baltimore and his colleagues the Nobel Prize, would provide the key to understanding the life-cycle of retroviruses such as HIV.

His present research programme, called “Engineering immunity” focuses on the control of inflammatory and immune responses, and on the use of gene therapy methods to treat HIV/AIDS and cancer. For more information visit: www.tnq.co.in/baltimore or call S. Vedavalli at 9840860565.

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