Blumberg, vice president for population oncology and senior member of the Institute for Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, is also professor of medicine and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1951 and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Oxford University in 1957. He shared the 1976 Nobel prize in medicine and physiologyfor his role in identifying the Australian antigen in human blood and discovering its association with serum hepatitis—a development that led to a dramatic reduction in the transmission of hepatitis B through bload transfusions.
Blumberg was intervicwed March 24 by Peter Gwynne, director of editorial operations of THE SCIENTIST. This is an edited version of their talk.
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