The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research fondly remembers its founding director, David Baltimore, a former MIT Institute Professor and Nobel laureate who died Sept. 6 at age 87.With discovery after discovery, Baltimore brought to light key features of biology with direct implications for human health. His work at MIT earned him a share of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Howard Temin and Renato Dulbecco) for discovering reverse transcriptase and identifying retroviruses, which use RNA to synthesize viral DNA.Following the award, Baltimore reoriented his laboratory’s focus…
