Werner H. Kirsten

Werner H. Kirsten (October 29, 1925 in Leipzig — December 24, 1992 in Hyde Park, Chicago) was a German-American pathologist and cancer researcher, known as the discoverer and namesake of a cancer-causing virus, the Kirsten Rat Sarcoma Virus, and consequently of the KRAS oncogene.

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