M Barbacid

Biography

 Mariano Barbacid got his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. From 1974-1978 he trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Stuart A. Aaronson at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1978 he started his own group to work on the molecular biology of human tumours, and in the spring of 1982 got the isolation of the first human cancer gene and the identification of the first mutation associated with the development of human cancer. These seminal findings, also made independently by two other groups have been seminal to establish the molecular bases of human cancer. In 1988, he joined the Bristol Myers-Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey where he became Vice President,

Research Interest

 Cancer, Genetics