He worked like president for Rockefeller University since 1990 up to 1991 and he was president of American Association of the Advancement of Science in the year 2007. He had a profound influence in the international science and it includes key contributions for recombinant DNA, biotechnology, cancer research, virology and immunology because he has accomplishments in the engineering, science, educator, administrator and a researcher.

He had trained together with many postdoctoral fellows and doctoral students and some of them became distinguished and notable researchers. Besides being given Nobel Prize, he got also many awards which included US National Medal of Science in the year 1999. He is now the chair of Board of Sponsors for Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists and he is consultant of Science Philanthropy Alliance.

From his biography, David Baltimore was born in New York City. His parents are Richard Baltimore and Gertrude. He was raised in the city of Queens in Rego Park, Queens and in Forest Hills. He moved together with the family to live in the Suburban of Great Neck, in New York and he was in the second grade since his mother felt that the schools there had not adequate education.

His father grew up like an Orthodox Jew and his mother lived as atheist, however David Baltimore was observing Jewish Holidays and he was attending synagogue with the father until the Bar Mitzvah. He finished the school at Great Neck High School in the year 1956 and he had credits because of the interest he had in high school in the summer that was spent at Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor in Maine.

David Baltimore finished with the Bachelor’s degree with higher honors at the Swarthmore College in the year 1950. He had credits because of the interest in the molecular biology under George Streisinger who was his mentor.

David Baltimore got married in 1968 and his wife is Dr Alice s. Huang. They have one daughter together. He was awarded the Nobel Prize of Medicine or Physiology which had been awarded jointly to Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin and David Baltimore. It was because of their discoveries that concern the interaction of the tumor viruses with the genetic material of cells.

David Baltimore was linked to the case of Thereza Imanishi-Kari, a scientist who was not in the laboratory of Baltimore but in other independent and separate one. The case got extensive news coverage with Congressional investigation. She was involved because he had links and later defended Imanishi-Kari against these accusations. His net worth is not reported.