Former Caltech president and Nobel laureate David Baltimore died at his home in Massachusetts on Saturday, Sept. 6, Caltech confirmed on Sunday. He was 87.

Details of his death were not immediately available Sunday morning.

Baltimore was the seventh president of the California Institute in Technology in Pasadena, serving in the post for nearly nine years, from 1997-2006.

As a professor of biology, he was known for his work in physiology and DNA research and worked with other researchers in developing an HIV vaccine. He also championed a $1.4 billion fundraising campaign during the later years of his tenure.

Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975 at age 37. In 2021, he was awarded the Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science.

His research in

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