David Baltimore

Dr. David Baltimore served as President of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 until 2006. He is currently President Emeritus and Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology at Caltech. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1975 for research in virology, Dr. Baltimore has profoundly influenced national science policy on such issues as recombinant DNA research and the AIDS epidemic. He is an accomplished researcher, educator, administrator, and public advocate for science and engineering and is considered one of the world's most influential biologists.

For almost 30 years, Dr. Baltimore was a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT from 1982 until 1990. An early advocate of federal AIDS research, he co-chaired the 1986 National Academy of Sciences committee on a National Strategy for AIDS and was appointed in 1996 to head the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Research Committee. Dr. Baltimore served as a member of the Independent Citizen's Oversight Committee to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine until 2007 and on the Board of Directors for Medimmune until 2007, Cellerant until 2008, Calimmune until 2017, Amgen until 2018, and Immune Design until 2019.