J. Michael Bishop

Awards

1. 1982

   Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

   Biology

   For the discovery that oncogenes are present in normal cells.

2. 1984

   Canada Gairdner International Award

   Biology

   For research on viral and cellular oncogenes that extends our understanding of the molecular basis of human cancer.

3. 1989

   Nobel Prize — Medicine

   Biology

   for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes