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January 27, 2006
David Baltimore, PhD (Damon Runyon Board Member), has been selected to serve as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS, the world's largest general science society, is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing science around the globe. Dr. Baltimore was awarded the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for identifying the reverse transcriptase enzyme, a critical step in understanding the biology of retroviruses like HIV. He is the President and Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology.