About Werner H. Kirsten
Lived 1925 – 1992 (aged 66–67). Werner H. Kirsten was a researcher.
Werner H. Kirsten (October 29, 1925 in Leipzig — December 24, 1992 in Hyde Park, Chicago) was a German-American pathologist and cancer researcher, known as the discoverer and namesake of a cancer-causing virus, the Kirsten Rat Sarcoma Virus, and consequently of the KRAS oncogene.
Early life and education Werner H. Kirsten was born in Leipzig in 1925.
He attended the Universität Frankfurt am Main, graduating summa cum laude with an MD in 1953. He subsequently worked at the Senckenberg Institute of Pathology and the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt. In 1956, he joined the Pathology Department at the University of Chicago.
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cancer researcher
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Werner H. Kirsten was born in 1925 in Leipzig.
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Werner H. Kirsten died on 24 December 1992.
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Werner H. Kirsten was a researcher.
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