Robert Weinberg

Dr. Weinberg is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research in the Department of Biology at MIT. Dr. Weinberg is also a founder of Verastem Oncology. Dr. Weinberg is the internationally recognized authority on the genetic basis of human cancer development. Dr. Weinberg is the author or editor of five books and more than 350 articles. Three of the books are intended for a lay audience: One Renegade Cell, Racing to the Beginning of the Road: The Search for the Origin of Cancer, and Genes and the Biology of Cancer, the latter co-authored with Dr. Harold E. Varmus, former Director of the National Institutes of Health. More recently, Dr Weinberg has published the textbook The Biology of Cancer, which is intended for doctoral students learning about this disease. Dr. Weinberg is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.