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Nobel Laureate Dr. J. Michael Bishop Dies at 90

3/23/2026

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  • Dr. J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize–winning scientist and chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, died in San Francisco at age 90 from pneumonia.
  • He joined the University of California, San Francisco faculty in 1968.
  • He was one of only two Nobel laureates to hold the University of California system chancellor position.
  • He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus for oncogenes.