Editing David Baltimore (section)

===MIT Cancer Center===
In 1973, he was awarded an American Cancer Society Professor of Microbiology that provided substantial salary support. Also in 1973, he became one of the early faculty members in the newly organized [[David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research|MIT Center for Cancer Research]] (CCR), capping a creative and industrious period of his career with nearly fifty research publications including the paradigm-shifting paper on reverse transcriptase.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Koch Institute: Video – Building the Foundation of Modern Cancer Research: Four Decades of Discovery within the CCR at MIT|url=https://ki.mit.edu/approach/ki/history/ccr|access-date=2021-02-28|website=ki.mit.edu}}</ref> The MIT CCR was led by Salvador E. Luria and quickly achieved pre-eminence with a group of faculty including Baltimore, [[Phillips Robbins]], [[Herman Eisen]], [[Phillip Allen Sharp|Philip Sharp]], and [[Robert Weinberg (biologist)|Robert Weinberg]], who all went on to illustrious research careers.<ref name=LuriaS/> Baltimore was honored as a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1974.<ref name=NobelBio/> He returned to New York City in 1975, for a year-long sabbatical at Rockefeller University working with Jim Darnell.<ref name=":2" />