Renato Dulbecco

Renato Dulbecco was an Italian-American virologist, physician, and biologist born in Catanzaro in 1914. He studied at the University of Turin and held citizenship in Italy, the United States, and the Kingdom of Italy. His professional career included positions at the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, San Diego, Indiana University, and the Human Genome Project. He resided in Milan, Imperia, La Jolla, and the United States.

Dulbecco received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests included oncology and virology. He was the doctoral supervisor of Susumu Tonegawa and Howard Temin. He died in La Jolla in 2012.