Robert A. Weinberg
Professor
BIOLOGY
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
United States of America
Biography
Weinberg, who received his PhD in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, has held research positions at the Weizmann Institute and the Salk Institute. In 1982, Weinberg helped found Whitehead Institute, joined the faculty as a professor of biology at MIT, and published his landmark paper "Mechanism of Activation of a Human Oncogene" in the journal Nature. In 1999, another major paper, "Creation of Human Tumor Cells with Defined Genetic Elements," was also published in Nature
Research Interest
Epithelial and stromal cells,Invasion and metastasis.
Publications
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Mani, S. A., Guo, W., Liao, M. J., Eaton, E. N., Ayyanan, A., Zhou, A. Y., ... & Campbell, L. L. (2008). The epithelial-mesenchymal transition generates cells with properties of stem cells. Cell, 133(4), 704-715.
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Hanahan, D., & Weinberg, R. A. (2000). The hallmarks of cancer. cell, 100(1), 57-70.
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Hanahan, D., & Weinberg, R. A. (2011). Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation. cell, 144(5), 646-674.
