CSHL mourns the loss of David Baltimore | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

CSHL mourns the loss of David Baltimore | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) mourns the passing of Nobel laureate and revolutionary molecular biologist David Baltimore. In 1959, Baltimore became the first member of CSHL’s newly launched Undergraduate Research Program (URP). That summer, he worked with then-Assistant CSHL Director Arthur Chovnick on a project studying the “Physiological genetics of Drosophila and Neurospora.” But it was meeting members of CSHL’s renowned Phage Group, i…