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My Take
Vogelstein's award list reads like a greatest-hits of biomedical science: Gairdner, Breakthrough, Asturias, Horwitz. What strikes me is how invisible this kind of greatness is to the public. He spent decades at Johns Hopkins decoding the genetics of colorectal cancer, and if any of us ever benefit from earlier detection or smarter treatment, his fingerprints may quietly be on the science underneath. I find that profoundly moving. The patient, unglamorous grind of the lab rarely earns celebrity, yet it shapes lives at scale. He is exactly the sort of person a database of notable people should make a point of remembering.
Overview
Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Bert Vogelstein
- Name (Japanese)
- バート・フォーゲルシュタイン
- Reading
- ばーと・ふぉーげるしゅたいん
- Born
- June 2, 1949 (age 77)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Ox
- Origin
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- oncologist / university teacher / scientist / pathologist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Pikesville High School
- University
- University of Pennsylvania
Awards & achievements
- 2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
- 2004 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
- 2001 Harvey Prize
- 1992 Canada Gairdner International Award
- 1994 Ernst Schering Prize
- 1998 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
- 1994 Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize
- 1998 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.