
Renato Dulbecco
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Renato Dulbecco ( dul-BEK-oh, Italian: [reˈnaːto dulˈbɛkko, -ˈbek-]; February 22, 1914 – February 19, 2012) was an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses, which are viruses that can cause cancer when they infect animal cells. He studied at the University of Turin under Giuseppe Levi, along with fellow students Salvador Luria and Rita Levi-Montalcini, who also moved to the U.S. with him and won Nobel prizes. He was drafted in
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Dante Labs Partnering with The Renato Dulbecco Foundation to advance personalized medicines for cancer, COVID-19 and rare diseases
Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Laureate and pioneering cancer researcher, dies at 97 - Salk Institute for Biological Studies