‘Left’ the American life biologist David Baltimore, awarded with the Nobel In 1975 for the study of retroviruses, such as HIV that causes AIDS, and mainly for the discovery of a viral enzyme explaining how to copy genetic information in cells.
The American biologist David Baltimor And the Nobel Prize -winning Nobel Prize in just 37 years old saw his career tarnished by an unjust category of fraud, died on September 6 in his 87, many US media reports on Monday (08.09.2025).
The Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) David Baltimor It is considered a great form of molecular biology. His Nobel was given for his research on retroviruses, such as HIV, and mainly for the discovery of a viral enzyme explaining how to copy genetic information to cells. This discovery has been crucial to the development of gene therapies.
His career and reputation were in danger in 1986, when he was involved in a case of scientific fraud. He was never directly accused, but a Japanese collaborator with whom he had a study was accused by another researcher for falsifying data in an immune experiment.
THE Baltimor He was often forced to answer the issue in 1988 and 1989, even to a Congress committee. In 1991 he was forced to resign from the presidency of the University of Rockefeller in New York, after staying at the post for only 18 months.
Only in 1996 Professor Baltimor and his colleague were permanently relieved of any suspicion. “I could never forget it,” he later told the New York Times, referring to that period of his life.