When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

Baltimore is a member of The Jackson Laboratory's Board of Trustees the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Board of Sponsors the National Academy of Sciences USA (NAS) the NAS Institute of Medicine (IOM) Amgen Inc. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. Baltimore however refused to retract the paper.

David Baltimore (born March 7 1938) is an American biologist university administrator and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1997 to 2006 and is currently the Robert A.