61. The Scientist :: Astrobiology Chief Blumberg Resigns MADISON — baruch S. blumberg, the firstever director of the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute, told The Scientist http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20020416/03/

Previous Next Astrobiology chief Blumberg resigns By Harvey Black National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute , told The Scientist yesterday that he would be stepping down in five months. Blumberg, who has held the post since 1999, said he will remain at NASA until the agency appoints a new director. Blumberg, who serves on the editorial advisory board of The Scientist , declined to say why he was leaving the position, but said he had other things he hoped to do and that he was stepping down "with regret." NASA officials, he said, have asked him to stay. There was no word on a replacement for Blumberg, although the Institute is already advertising for the post. Don Savage, a NASA spokesperson, said a search committee had been formed. Blumberg received his MD from Columbia University and a PhD in biochemistry from Oxford University. The 1976 Physiology or Medicine Nobel Prize Blumberg, 76, said he also plans to devote more time to research. "There's incomplete work I left behind at Fox Chase Cancer Center ," he said, referring to the research center in Philadelphia where he spent the bulk of his career.

62. The Scientist - Oxford Names Blumberg As Balliol Master In a break with tradition, Balliol College, one of Oxford University’s 35 colleges,has named baruch S. blumberg of Philadelphia, Pa., as its next Master. http://www.the-scientist.com/yr1988/jul/people_p26_880725.html

The Scientist 2[14]:26, Jul. 25, 1988 News Oxford Names Blumberg As Balliol Master By None Date: July 25, 1988 In a break with tradition, Balliol College, one of Oxford University’s 35 colleges, has named Baruch S. Blumberg of Philadelphia, Pa., as its next Master. Nobel prizewinner Blumberg is both the first United States citizen and the first scientist elected to head the college, which traditionally chooses scholars from the humanities. Succeeding medieval philosopher Anthony Kenny, Blumberg, vice president of population oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, will assume the mastership in September 1989. At that time, Kenny will leave to become secretary of the Rhodes Trust, which administers the Rhodes scholarship pro- gram. In deciding to elect Blumberg, Balliol’s fellows were influenced not only by his distinguished scientific career, but also by his fundraising contacts in U.S. universities and industry. This fall, Oxford will launch an international campaign to raise more than $176 mil- lion. As master, Blumberg will be expected to spend a substantial part of the year in residence in Oxford to teach and entertain on the college’s behalf, but he will maintain an appointment at Fox Chase as a senior scientist. In his Philadelphia role, he will be able to collaborate in research projects at the cancer center as well as establish new research and academic collaborations at oxford. “Education and science are essentially international activities, and in that sense, taking this new position is consistent with the rest of my career,” Blumberg, says.

63. HEPATITIS B AND THE PREVENTION OF PRIMARY CANCER OF THE LIVER 4 HEPATITIS B AND THE PREVENTION OF PRIMARY CANCER OF THE LIVER Selected Publicationsof baruch S blumberg edited by baruch S blumberg (Fox Chase Cancer Center http://www.worldscientific.com.sg/books/medsci/3550.html

Home Browse by Subject Bestsellers New Titles ... Browse all Subjects Search Keyword Author Concept ISBN Series New Titles Editor's Choice Bestsellers Book Series ... World Scientific Series in 20th Century Biology - Vol. 4 HEPATITIS B AND THE PREVENTION OF PRIMARY CANCER OF THE LIVER Selected Publications of Baruch S Blumberg edited by Baruch S Blumberg (Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA) This important book comprises a narrative account of research on the hepatitis B virus (and related subjects) and selected reprints from the laboratory of Nobel laureate Baruch S Blumberg and his colleagues. The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the ten most common deadly infectious diseases and is responsible for 1.1 million deaths a year worldwide. Research in his laboratory resulted in the discovery of HBV and the invention of the vaccine which protects one against it. The research began as an apparently esoteric study of human biochemical and immunologic variation. This required field-work in Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific, the Americas, and in many other locations and populations. The overall goal was to identify inherited biological differences which were related to differing responses to disease-causing agents. The virus was discovered using the blood of an infected person who had developed the antibody, to detect the virus present in another infected person who had become a carrier of the virus. Screening of blood donors led to the near-elimination of post-transfusion hepatitis B. There are now national HBV vaccination programs in more than 70 countries. During the past decade these programs have strikingly reduced the prevalence of HBV in many countries and there has been a significant drop in the incidence of cancer of the liver in the vaccinated cohorts. The HBV vaccination program is now, after smoking cessation, the most widely used cancer prevention program in the world.

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM Tuesday, October 24, 2000 OPENING CEREMONY OF THE INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED BIOSCIENCES , followed by dinner Wednesday, October 25, 2000 REGISTRATION OPENING SESSION Sonnenfeldt Auditorium (HALL A) Welcome Greetings: Shimona Geresh, Head, Organizing Committee, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Hagit Messer-Yaron, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sports, Israel Avishay Braverman, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Shoshana Arad, Head, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel SESSION I HALL A Co-Chairpersons: Michael Sela, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Raymond A. Dwek, Oxford Institute of Glycobiology, U.K. Meir Wilchek , The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel The applicationof bi0recognition for BIOTECHNOLOGY Baruch S. Blumberg, Fox Chase Center, U.S.A. FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO APPLICATION. THE HEPATITIS B VACCINE Rita Colwell, National Science Foundation, USA Fulfilling the Promise of Biotechnology POSTER SESSION I AND C OFFEE BREAK Senate Building SESSION II HALL A Co-Chairpersons: Meir Wilchek

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68. Northeast Times By Tom Waring Times Staff Writer Dr. baruch S. blumberg gained internationalprominence in 1976 and has been waiting to tell his full story ever since. http://www.northeasttimes.com/2002/0605/hepatitis.html

Doc wrote the book on hepatitis B By Tom Waring Times Staff Writer Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg gained international prominence in 1976 and has been waiting to tell his full story ever since. Last month, Blumberg published a book that was a quarter of a century in the making. Titled Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus , Blumberg takes the reader through the scientific research that led to his findings and the resulting Nobel Prize for medicine. Last week, the Brooklyn-born Blumberg, 76, joined WHYY-FM Radio Times talk show host Marty Moss-Coane at the cancer center auditorium for an hourlong discussion of the book and his career. Cancer center staff, faculty and other guests made up the audience. Still, the numbers are a lot better than they were before the vaccine. In China, 16 percent of the population carried the virus. Today, the figure has dropped to less than 1 percent. Worldwide, there were as many as 375 million carriers. The vaccine was field-tested in the United States and abroad and found to be safe and effective. The PBS program Nova told the world about the results, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Heptavax-B vaccine for general use in 1982.

69. Maxygen - Scientific Advisory Board baruch S. blumberg, MD, Ph.D. , is a Distinguished Scientist at Fox Chase CancerCenter, Philadelphia, and Professor of Medicine and Anthropology at the http://www.maxygen.com/science-adv.php

Scientific Advisory Board Alejandro C. Zaffaroni Baruch S. Blumberg Arthur Kornberg Joshua Lederberg ... Frances Arnold Alejandro C. Zaffaroni, Ph.D. , co-founder of Maxygen. Dr. Zaffaroni currently serves as CEO of Alexza MDC, a specialty pharmaceutical company that he founded in 2000. Dr. Zaffaroni is a biochemist by training and a highly successful biotechnology entrepreneur who has co-founded and built several international companies including Syntex Corporation, ALZA Corporation , DNAX Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Affymax N.V. and Affymetrix, Inc . Dr. Zaffaroni has repeatedly recognized the commercial value of leading-edge technologies and has turned those visions into highly successful companies. In 1995, Dr. Zaffaroni was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Clinton in recognition of his contributions to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Dr. Zaffaroni is a member of the Managing Partner of Technogen Associates, L.P. Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D. , is a Distinguished Scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, and Professor of Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Blumberg's research has covered many areas including clinical research, epidemiology, virology, genetics and anthropology. Dr. Blumberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his work on infectious disease, specifically for the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus, and has also been elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame for similar work. Dr. Blumberg's research and insight into infectious diseases has been extremely valuable to Maxygen's programs related to vaccines and Hepatitis B in particular.

70. THE WORLD OF RADIOACTIVITY Professor baruch S. blumberg (*). Professor baruch S. blumberg Fox Chase CancerCenter 7701 Burholme Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111 (USA). http://web.ccr.jussieu.fr/curie.100/fulltext/blumberg.htm

Professor Baruch S. Blumberg BENEFITS AND THREATS TO MANKIND From Proceedings of the International Conference The Discovery of Polonium and Radium – Its Scientific and Philosophical . 17-20 September 1998, Warsaw, Poland I am very pleased to have been invited to this historical meeting. I have been asked to speak on one of the important themes of the conference; the benefits and threats that are imposed by the scientific method. The scientific process involves both the solution of problems and the creation of problems. When a hypothesis is tested, a large amount of data is collected in order to validate or reject the stated hypothesis. This data, in turn, can be used to generate additional hypotheses, usually more than one. These new hypothesis, all or some of them, can also be tested, and more data is collected. This again leads to hypotheses, some of which can be tested, and the process can continue for an extended period until a sufficient number of hypotheses have been validated or rejected to complete the project. The scientist ends up with many answered questions, but even more questions and mysteries that are unanswered. Another important consequence has been the reduction in the incidence of primary cancer of the liver or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HCC is one of the most common cancers; worldwide, it is the third most common cause of death from cancer in males and the seventh most common cause of death from cancer in females. About 85% of primary cancer of the liver is a consequence of chronic infection with HBV. In a study of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations in Taiwan, carried out over a period of ten years, the incidence of HCC in the impacted population has decreased to one third of what it was prior to the vaccination program. If these observations are confirmed in subsequent studies, than it is likely that one of the world's most common cancers will be controlled.

71. Hepatitis B Foundation - Hepatitis B: The Hunt For A Killer Virus Printer friendly. By baruch S. blumberg, MD, Ph.D. Editor’s noteDr. blumberg is one of the HBF’s founding scientific advisors http://www.hepb.org/02-0524.hepb

B Informed Newsletter Printable Information Hepatitis B Videos HBF Bookstore ... Frequently Asked Questions By: Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D. Editor’s note: Dr. Blumberg is one of the HBF’s founding scientific advisors and we encourage everyone to read about his discovery that changed our world. His commitment to completing the circle of discovery, from virus - to vaccine - to cure, is a vital source of motivation for us all. The discovery of the deadly hepatitis B virus and the vaccine against it was one of the great triumphs of twentieth-century medicine. And it almost didn’t happen. Dr. Blumberg shares this story in his scientific memoir, Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus. With wit and insight, Blumberg describes how he and a team of researchers found a virus they were not looking for and created a vaccine for a disease they previously knew little about - work that took the author around the world and won him the Nobel Prize. As he takes the reader through the investigative twists and turns of his journey, Blumberg recounts with immediacy the exciting moments in the lab and in the field - from a hair-raising flight to Africa to an unforgettable encounter with Alaskan sled dogs. Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus is a fascinating chronicle of a major discovery and illuminates the trail of remarkable “accidents” that happen when scientists like Blumberg seek answers to interesting questions. Serendipity and his determined persistence resulted in discoveries that have generated a pharmaceutical industry, have global public-health applications, and continue to save millions of lives each year.

72. Born On July 28 blumberg, baruch S(amuel) blumberg, baruch S(amuel) (b. July 28, 1925, New York City),American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes http://www.vmt.com/jul28.html

Britannica Born on July 28 Antonio, Nicolas Bibliotheca Hispana appeared in two parts ( Nova Vetus , 1696). The first is a vast bibliography of Peninsular and Spanish colonial writers after 1500, with critical evaluations. The second, a history of Peninsular literature from the reign of Augustus to 1500, marks the emergence of modern bibliography and the transformation of literary history into a scholarly discipline. A second edition (1788; vol. 1 of the Nova dated 1783), with additions from Antonio's manuscripts, is still consulted. Phillips, Stephen Phillips, Stephen (b. July 28, 1864, Summertown, Oxfordshire, Eng.d. Dec. 9, 1915, Deal, Kent), English actor and poet who was briefly successful as a playwright. Perrine, Charles Dillon Perrine, Charles Dillon (b. July 28, 1867, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.d. June 21, 1951, Villa General Mitre, Arg.), U.S. astronomer who discovered the sixth and seventh moons of Jupiter in 1904 and 1905, respectively. In 1904 he published a calculation of the solar parallax (a measure of the Earth-Sun distance) based on observations of the minor planet Eros during one of its close approaches to the Earth. Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich

73. PAPERS D'OVNIs. Octubre - Diciembre 2000. Nº 22 Translate this page El Instituto de Astrobiología de la NASA nació en 1998 fruto de la iniciativadel premio Nobel 1976 en medicina, baruch S. blumberg y otros científicos en http://www.ctv.es/USERS/netcei/Pap00022/PAP22A01.htm

El Instituto de Astrobiología de la NASA nació en 1998 fruto de la iniciativa del premio Nobel 1976 en medicina, Baruch S. Blumberg y otros científicos en un marco político mucho más receptivo hacia la investigación de la posible existencia de vida extraterrestre. Baruch S. Blumberg posando para la prensa en 1998. El origen de este cambio se sitúa en el anuncio de que posiblemente hubiera materia viva fosilizada en el meteorito marciano ALH84001 (ver Papers nº 33-34), realizado en 1996. El aparato propagandístico, tal y como señalamos desde el CEI entonces, conmocionó al mundo. Incluso el cicatero Congreso norteamericano, que había liquidado el programa SETI en 1993, volvió su mirada hacia estos temas. A diferencia del proyecto de detección de vida ET a través de las ondas, que ahora debe financiarse con aportaciones privadas, el NAI se preocupa por los microorganismos y otras formas de materia viva todavía más primitiva en condiciones extremas; es decir, el tipo de actividad biológica que la agencia espacial cree posible encontrar algún día en otros mundos. El NAI se ha concebido como una institución deslocalizada, fuera de unas paredes concretas.

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A B C D ... Contact Beta 0.71 powered by: akademie.de PHP PostgreSQL Google News about your search term Baruch S. Blumberg Baruch Samuel Blumberg (born ) is a American scientist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the Hepatitis B virus , and later developed the diagnostic test and vaccine for it. Books about 'Baruch S. Blumberg' at: amazon.com or amazon.co.uk Note: This article from Wikipedia is made available under the terms of the GNU FDL Further Search within Free-Definition Link from your web site to this article with this HTML tag: top

75. Nature Publishing Group by baruch S. blumberg Princeton University Press, $27.95, 272 pp, 2002.At least onethird of the world s population has been infected http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v9/n3/full/nm0303-25

76. Columbia University Nobel Laureates 30, Bohr, Aage, Physics, 1975, 1949–50. 31, Rainwater, James, Physics,1975, 1936, PhD 1939, 1939–86. 32, blumberg, baruch S. Medicine, 1976,P S 1951, http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_now/symposia/history_nobel_laureates.html

var loaded_bol = false; Nobelist Field Prize Year CC AB Columbia PhD Columbia Faculty Roosevelt, Theodore Peace Millikan, Robert A. Physics PhD 1895 Butler, Nicholas Murray Peace PhD 1884 Langmuir, Irving Chemistry Eng. 1903 MA 1906 Morgan, Thomas Hunt Medicine Urey, Harold C. Chemistry Fermi, Enrico Physics Rabi. I. I. Physics PhD 1927 Muller, Hermann J. Medicine PhD 1927 Northrop, John Howard Chemistry PhD 1915 Yukawa, Hideki Physics Kendall, Edward C. Medicine PhD 1910 Kusch, Polykarp Physics Lamb, Willis E. Physics Cournand, Andre F. Medicine Richards, Dickinson W. Medicine Lee, Tsung-Dao Physics Lederberg, Joshua Medicine Mayer, Maria Goeppert Physics Bloch, Konrad E. Medicine PhD 1938 Townes, Charles H. Physics Schwinger, Julian S. Physics PhD 1939 Wald, George Medicine MA 1928 Luria, Salvador E. Medicine Kuznets, Simon S. Economics PhD 1926 Arrow, Kenneth J. Economics PhD 1951 Cooper, Leon N Physics PhD 1964 Stein, William H. Chemistry PhD 1938 Lorenz, Konrad Medicine Bohr, Aage Physics Rainwater, James Physics PhD 1939 Blumberg, Baruch S. Medicine Friedman, Milton Economics PhD 1946 Ting, Samuel C. C.

77. Astrobiology Magazine of NASA s Astrobiology Institute (NAI). He succeeds Nobel LaureateDr. baruch S. blumberg. Runnegar currently is a professor in http://www.astrobio.net/news/print.php?sid=267

78. Yale Medicine-On Campus Nobel laureate baruch S. blumberg, MD, Ph.D., discussed environmental and geneticfactors of the hepatitis B virus and related liver diseases during a talk on http://info.med.yale.edu/external/pubs/ym_su99/campus/campus.htm

More News A case study in corporate resuscitation Top More Shades of gray in the human genome Top More Top More DNA sequencing and genome-mapping have moved biology into a new world where researchers try to keep pace with the explosion of information and ideas, Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert, Ph.D., told a standing-room-only audience of graduate students, postdocs and researchers in May. Gilbert, a microbiologist at Harvard who invented DNA sequencing, delivered the seventh annual Edward A. Adelberg Lecture in Genetics. He shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Frederick Sanger for their work in determining base sequences in nucleic acids. Also in On Campus: A case study in corporate resuscitation Shades of gray in the human genome Biology's new world top of page Originally published in Yale Medicine, Summer 1999.

79. E-STREAMS Vol. 6, No. 11 - November 2003 baruch blumberg’s account of the research that led to the discovery of the hepatitisB virus (HBV), the first hepatitis B vaccine, and, ultimately, the http://www.e-streams.com/es0611/es0611_2860.html

E-STREAMS Vol. 6, No. 11 - November 2003 Medicine—History Hepatitis B: The Hunt for a Killer Virus , by Baruch S. Blumberg. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2002. 244p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-691-00692-X. $27.95. LC Call no.: QR201.H46B58 2002. Subjects: Hepatitis B Virus—Research—History; Hepatitis B Vaccine—Research—History. Reviewer: Donna R. Berryman, Outreach Coordinator, New England Region NN/LM University of Massachusetts Medical School, donna.berryman@umassmed.edu Table of Contents: Differences in Response to Disease 8 Oxford and the National Institutes of Health 29 Polymorphisms and Geography 42 We Discover a New Polymorphism 65 The Discovery of Australia Antigen 72 What is Australia Antigen 84 Identifying the Hepatitis B Virus 106 The Control of Posttransfusion Hepatitis 119 The Hepatitis B Vaccine 134 Hepatitis B Virus and Cancer of the Liver 147 What is Now Known about HBV 159 Back to polymorphisms and Inherited Susceptibility to Disease 193 HBV and Its Connections 203 Appendices: Scientists and Staff at Fox Chase Cancer Center Referred to in the Text 215 Research on Hyaluronic Acid 219 The National Institutes of Health and the Funding of Basic Medical Research 221 Molecular Biology 223 A Gazetteer of Selected Place-Names Used in the Text 229 Index 233 It is true that many lives and careers appear to be firmly headed in one direction, pointed towards a single goal, when circumstance or fate intervene and suddenly, there are uncharted waters and a new destination. The straight and narrow applies to spiritual ideals, perhaps, and freeways through the Great Plains, certainly, but not the course of real lives or great discoveries.

80. Wired 7.10: Must Read Astrobiology Institute charged with nothing less than unlocking the origin, evolution,and destiny of life in the universe - baruch S. blumberg has his work http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.10/mustread.html?pg=9

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