Renato Dulbecco Nobel Prize Winning Virologist Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Cultural Institute
The Italian Cultural Institute bestows a Lifetime Achievement Award on Renato Dulbecco for his paramount commitment to medical research on tumor viruses and cellular genetic material. After receiving the award, Dulbecco will speak about his career as a scientist and winning the Nobel Prize.
Renato Dulbecco was born in Catanzaro in 1914. At the age of only sixteen, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Turin. After the war he began his work in oncological research, and moved first to Indiana and then to California, to Caltech, where he became Professor. His most important discovery was the demonstration that the DNA of the virus is incorporated in the genetic material of the cell, causing a permanent alteration. In 1975 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine (together with David Baltimore and Howard Temin) for research on the interaction of tumor viruses and cellular genetic material. In 1986 he launched the idea of studying all human genes, starting the worldwide Human Genome Project. Since the 1970s, Renato Dulbecco has been living between Italy and La Jolla, California, where he is President Emeritus at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Italian Cultural Institute to recognize Italian excellence in every field. Other award winners include composer Ennio Morricone and art collector Giuliano Gori
The event is organized in collaboration with the Salk Institute, La Jolla, the Italian Consulate General of Los Angeles and the W Hotel.
Thursday, November 29, 6pm
Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles
1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
