Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1989
J. Michael Bishop received the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. The Nobel committee highlighted this contribution for its lasting importance to the field. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.