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Baltimore was born in s. Reverse transcriptase is an important factor in the reproduction of Retrovirus es such as HIV . Also while at MIT, Baltimore established the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He was an organizer of the Asilomar Conference On Recombinant DNA in 1975 . For most people outside of science, Baltimore is best known for his role in an affair of alleged , the matter was taken up by the United States Congress , where it was aggressively pursued by, among others, Representative John Dingell . Largely on the basis of these findings, NIH's fraud unit, then called the Office of Scientific Integrity, accused Dr. Imanishi-Kari in 1991 of falsifying data and recommended she be barred from receiving research grants for 10 years. Due to the ensuing controversy, in 1991 Baltimore was forced by his scientific peers to resign from the presidency of Rockefeller University, to which he had been appointed only one year earlier. An extensive file on the case, collected by the mathematician Serge Lang , was published in the journal ''Ethics and Behaviour'' in January 1993 . In 1996 , a newly-constituted HHS appeals panel, appointed by the federal government reviewed the case again and dismissed the charges of misconduct against Imanishi-Kari. Baltimore is admired by many in the scientific community for standing behind a junior faculty member at great personal and professional cost. The story of the case is described in Daniel Kevles book "The Baltimore Case" (ISBN 0-393-04103-4). Baltimore has profound influence on national policy in matters concerning recombinant DNA research and the AIDS epidemic. Baltimore was appointed president of the California Institute Of Technology (Caltech) in 1997 , though he will be leaving this post at the end of the 2005-2006 school year. He is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica . SEE ALSO Baltimore Classification EXTERNAL LINKS
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