Bert Vogelstein

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.

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

Occupation

oncologist / university teacher / scientist / pathologist

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

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/vogelstein_bio.html
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Maryland
• oncologist
• university teacher
• scientist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.