Baruch Blumberg—hepatitis B and beyond

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Baruch S Blumberg is a Distinguished Scientist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, and University Professor of medicine and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was the first director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. From October 2000 until October 2001, he was senior advisor to the administrator of NASA based in Washington DC. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford University, from 1989 to 1994 and, before that, Associate Director for Clinical Research at Fox Chase from 1964. He was on the staff of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, from 1957 to 1964. He earned an MD degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, in 1951, and a PhD (DPhil) in Biochemistry from Oxford University in 1957. He was an intern, resident, and fellow at Bellevue Hospital and the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.