Tony Hunter

Tony Hunter his B.A. in 1965 from the University of Cambridge, and his Ph.D. in 1969 for work on mammalian protein synthesis under Asher Korner in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow in the Department from 1968-1971, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute from 1971-1973 working under Walter Eckhart on polyoma virus DNA replication. He rejoined the Salk Institute as an Assistant Professor in 1975 in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, where he is currently the Renato Dulbecco Chair in Cancer Research and Director of the Salk Institute Cancer Center.