Francis Peyton Rous
MD
Member, Rockefeller Institute (Historical)
👥Biography 个人简介
Francis Peyton Rous (deceased 1970) discovered in 1911 that a cell-free filtrate from a chicken sarcoma could transmit the tumor, establishing the concept of tumor-causing viruses. He received the Nobel Prize in 1966 more than 50 years after the discovery. Rous sarcoma virus became the foundation for discovery of the first oncogene, src.
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Last updated: 2026-04-01 | All information from publicly available academic sources
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