Huebner, Robert Joseph

Huebner, Robert Joseph
▪ 1999

      American virologist whose theory that certain genes, which he called oncogenes, are involved in cancer focused researchers' attention on finding them; during his years as chief of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Arthritis and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., his investigations paved the way for the discovery of viral causes of cancers and several other serious diseases and for the development of a number of vaccines and treatments (b. Feb. 23, 1914, Cheviot, Ohio—d. Aug. 26, 1998, Coatesville, Pa.).

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