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WEINBERG, Robert was born on November 11, 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Doctor Fritz E. and Lore W. (nee Reichh"ardt) Weinberg.
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One Renegade Cell the Quest for the Orig (Science Masters)
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This text explains to the general reader the step-by-step process by which cancers arise and spread. The book is an expansion of the article from "Scientific American" which discussed developments in cancer research since the 1970s.
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The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition
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Thoroughly updated and incorporating the most important advances in the fast-growing field of cancer biology, The Biology of Cancer, Second Edition, maintains all of its hallmark features admired by students, instructors, researchers, and clinicians around the world. The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for students studying the molecular and cellular bases of cancer at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical school levels. The principles of cancer biology are presented in an organized, cogent, and in-depth manner. The clarity of writing, supported by an extensive full-color art program and numerous pedagogical features, makes the book accessible and engaging. The information unfolds through the presentation of key experiments that give readers a sense of discovery and provide insights into the conceptual foundation underlying modern cancer biology. The new Second Edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to include major advances in cancer biology over the past six years. Updates include current information on: • The tumor microenvironment • Metastatic dissemination • Tumor immunology • Cancer stem cells • The epithelial-mesenchymal transition • Multi-step tumorigenesis • Invasion and metastasis • Mutation of cancer cell genomes • Greatly expanded treatment of traditional therapy • Epigenetic contributions • MicroRNA involvement • The Warburg effect Besides its value as a textbook, The Biology of Cancer is a useful reference for individuals working in biomedical laboratories and for clinical professionals. Every copy of the book comes with an updated "Pathways in Human Cancer" poster and a DVD-ROM containing the book’s art program, a greatly expanded selection of movies, audio file mini-lectures, Supplementary Sidebars, and a Media Guide.
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A scientific study explains to the general reader the step-by-step manner by which cancers originate and spread, covering the process that takes place between the time a mutation occurs and a full-blown cancer develops. Title: One Renegade Cell Author: Weinberg, Robert A. Publisher: Perseus Books Group Publication Date: 1999/10/07 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: BL2003010263
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One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters Series)
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Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer
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One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters Series) by Weinberg, Robert A. (1999) Paperback
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The Biology of Cancer
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The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate biology students as well as medical students studying the molecular and cellular bases of cancer. The book presents the principles of cancer biology in an organized, cogent, and in-depth manner. The clarity of writing and the lucid full-color art program make the book accessible and engaging. The information unfolds through the presentation of key experiments which give readers a sense of discovery and provides insights into the conceptual foundation underlying modern cancer biology. The Biology of Cancer synthesizes the findings of three decades of recent cancer research and proposes a conceptual framework from which to teach about these discoveries. It provides the necessary structure, organization, and content for a course on cancer biology for advanced undergraduates and beginning doctoral students. The book is comprehensive and offers many pedagogical features to assist teaching and learning. The book includes many recent and topical references, and is intended to empower the student to move directly into the primary research literature. The text is up-to-date and provides current information on topics such as tumor stem cells and recently introduced chemotherapeutics. State-of-the-art techniques are discussed throughout. Modern biomedical research is explored, helping readers to hone their analytical abilities and to assimilate and think clearly about complex biological processes. The Biology of Cancer provides insights into many aspects of immunology, developmental biology, and neurobiology. The exceptional full-color art program contains many images published for the first time. The book is extensively illustrated with schematic drawings, micrographs, computer-generated models and graphs. The pieces were chosen to support and clarify the concepts, as well as to supply additional interest. Besides its value as a textbook, The Biology of Cancer will be a useful reference for individuals working in biomedical laboratories, and for clinical professionals.
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Racing To The Beginning Of The Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer by Weinberg, Robert A. (1996) Hardcover
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One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Science Masters Series)
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One Renegade Cell: Quest for the Origins of Cancer (Science Masters) by Robert A Weinberg (30-Nov-1998) Hardcover
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The Biology of Cancer
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The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for undergraduate and graduate biology students as well as medical students studying the molecular and cellular bases of cancer. The book presents the principles of cancer biology in an organized, cogent, and in-depth manner. The clarity of writing and the lucid full-color art program make the book accessible and engaging. The information unfolds through the presentation of key experiments which give readers a sense of discovery and provides insights into the conceptual foundation underlying modern cancer biology. The Biology of Cancer synthesizes the findings of three decades of recent cancer research and proposes a conceptual framework from which to teach about these discoveries. It provides the necessary structure, organization, and content for a course on cancer biology for advanced undergraduates and beginning doctoral students. The book is comprehensive and offers many pedagogical features to assist teaching and learning. The book includes many recent and topical references, and is intended to empower the student to move directly into the primary research literature. The text is up-to-date and provides current information on topics such as tumor stem cells and recently introduced chemotherapeutics. State-of-the-art techniques are discussed throughout. Modern biomedical research is explored, helping readers to hone their analytical abilities and to assimilate and think clearly about complex biological processes. The Biology of Cancer provides insights into many aspects of immunology, developmental biology, and neurobiology. The exceptional full-color art program contains many images published for the first time. The book is extensively illustrated with schematic drawings, micrographs, computer-generated models and graphs. The pieces were chosen to support and clarify the concepts, as well as to supply additional interest. Besides its value as a textbook, The Biology of Cancer will be a useful reference for individuals working in biomedical laboratories, and for clinical professionals.
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Robert Allan A. WEINBERG
Edit Profilebiochemist university professor molecular biologist
Robert Allan Weinberg, American Biochemist, educator. Recipient Bristol Myers award, 1984, Armand Hammer award, 1984, Brown-Hazen award New York State Department Health, 1984, Sloan prize General Motors Cancer Research Foundation, 1987, Research Recognition award Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, 1990, Gairdner Foundation International award, 1992, Harvey Prize, Technion, 1994, G.H.A. Clowes Memorial award, 1996.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Northwestern University, Illinois, 1984.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Uppsala University, Sweden, 2007. Doctor of Science (honorary), Tufts University, 2009.
Career
His research is in the area of oncogenes and the genetic basis of human cancer. He teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology including course 7.012 (introductory biology) with Eric Lander. Weinberg and Lander are among the co-founders of Verastem, which is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer by targeting cancer stem cells.
He is best known for his discoveries of the first human oncogene Ras and the first tumor suppressor gene Rbp.
371-381, which is partially documented in Natalie Angier′s book, Natural Obsessions, about her year spent in Weinberg"s laboratory In the late 20th century, advances in genetics led to the discovery of over one hundred cancer cell types.
Cancer cells were noted for their bewildering diversity. lieutenant was hard to identify the principles that cancers had in common.
He and Douglas Hanahan wrote the seminal paper, "The Hallmarks of Cancer", published in January 2000, that gave the six requirements for one renegade cell to cause a deadly cancer: In 2011, they published an updated review article entitled "Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation".
Weinberg is well known for both his cancer research and for his mentorship of many eminent scientists, including Tyler Jacks, Clifford Tabin and Cornelia Bargmann. He is currently studying cancer cell metastasis. He is also the author of the textbook The Biology of Cancer published by Garland Science.
To this day Weinberg has retracted five research papers where he is listed as author
The retractions include one paper in Cell, one in Cancer Cell, two in Genes & Development and one in Cancer The reasons given for these retractions remain obscure but appear to involve a form of data manipulation that renders the published data invalid or false. Foreign example, in the retracted Cell paper of 2009, the authors inform the readership that “original data were compiled from different replicate experiments in order to assemble the presented figure.
The scope of the figure preparation issues includes compiling data from independent experiments to present them as one internally controlled experiment, statistical analyses based on technical replicates that are not reflective of the biological replicates, and comparisons of selectively chosen data points from multiple experiments.”.
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The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition
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One Renegade Cell The Quest for the Origin of Cancer.jpg
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The Biology of Cancer
( The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for undergraduate a...)
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The Biology of Cancer
( The Biology of Cancer is a textbook for undergraduate a...)
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One Renegade Cell the Quest for the Orig (Science Masters)
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One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters Series) by Weinberg, Robert A. (1999) Paperback
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Racing To The Beginning Of The Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer by Weinberg, Robert A. (1996) Hardcover
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- Racing to the Beginning of the Road: Search for the Origin of Cancer
- One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters Series)
- Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer
- One Renegade Cell: The Quest For The Origins Of Cancer (Science Masters Series)
- One Renegade Cell: The Quest for the Origins of Cancer
- One Renegade Cell: Quest for the Origins of Cancer (Science Masters) by Robert A Weinberg (30-Nov-1998) Hardcover
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The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition
Membership
National Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. American Academy of Arts and Sciences]
Robert Weinberg is also affiliated with the Broad Institute and is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1992.
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Married Amy Schulman Weinberg, November 19, 1976. Children: Aron, Leah Rosa.
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Order of Merit for Arts and Science; Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; Wolf Prize in Medicine; Robert Koch Prize; Albert Einstein World Award of Science; Princess of Asturias Award - Technical and Scientific ; InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize; Pour le Mérite; Harvey Prize; Gairdner Foundation International Award National Medal of Science; Hope Funds Award in Basic ; Keio Medical Science Prize; Wolf Prize in Medicine; Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; Albert Einstein World Award of Science The Keio Medical Science Prize is a distinguished Japanese prize in medical sciences.; The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.; The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a monetary award, funded by internet entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe.; The Albert Einstein World Award for Science is a yearly award given by the World Cultural Council 'as a means of recognition, and as an incentive to scientific and technological research and development', with special consideration for researches which 'have brought true benefit and well being to mankind'.Order of Merit for Arts and Science; Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; Wolf Prize in Medicine; Robert Koch Prize; Albert Einstein World Award of Science; Princess of Asturias Award - Technical and Scientific ; InBev-Baillet Latour Health Prize; Pour le Mérite; Harvey Prize; Gairdner Foundation International Award National Medal of Science; Hope Funds Award in Basic ; Keio Medical Science Prize; Wolf Prize in Medicine; Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; Albert Einstein World Award of Science The Keio Medical Science Prize is a distinguished Japanese prize in medical sciences.; The Wolf Prize in Medicine is awarded once a year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel.; The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is a monetary award, funded by internet entrepreneurs: Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan of Facebook; Sergey Brin of Google; entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner; and Anne Wojcicki, one of the founders of the genetics company 23andMe.; The Albert Einstein World Award for Science is a yearly award given by the World Cultural Council 'as a means of recognition, and as an incentive to scientific and technological research and development', with special consideration for researches which 'have brought true benefit and well being to mankind'.