Editing David Baltimore (section)

===California Institute of Technology===
[[File:David Baltimore 2006.jpg|thumb|300px|From left: [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory|JPL]] Director [[Charles Elachi]], La Canada-Flintridge Mayor Greg Brown, Baltimore and JPL Deputy Director Eugene Tattini (2006).]]
On May 13, 1997, Baltimore was appointed president of the [[Caltech|California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech).<ref name=Perry1997>{{cite news| vauthors = Perry J |title=Nobel Prize-winning Biologist David Baltimore Named President of the California Institute of Technology|url=https://www.caltech.edu/news/nobel-prize-winning-biologist-david-baltimore-named-president-california-institute-technology|access-date=May 21, 2015|work=Caltech Media Relations|date=May 13, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Saltus R | date = May 14, 1997 | url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8421117.html | title = MIT Laureate to Lead Caltech: Baltimore Weathered Data Dispute | journal = Boston Globe | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160409232035/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8421117.html | archive-date = April 9, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Hotz RL | date = May 14, 1997 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-14-mn-58674-story.html | title = Prominent Biology Nobelist Chosen to Head Caltech; Controversial and outspoken scientist David Baltimore says his appointment reflects school's desire for bigger role in nation's scientific debates. | work = Los Angeles Times }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-05-15-me-58789-story.html | title = A Luminary of Science for Caltech's Presidency; Nobelist Baltimore has the needed background and clout. | newspaper = LA Times | date =  May 15, 1997 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Hotz RL | date = September 28, 1997 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-28-tm-37600-story.html | title = Biomedicine's Bionic Man | work = LA Times Magazine }}</ref> He began serving in the office October 15, 1997 and was inaugurated March 9, 1998.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Tindol R | date = February 23, 1998 | url = http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR11859.html | title = New Caltech President To Be Honored with Formal Inauguration, Birthday Festschrift | work = Caltech Media Relations | archive-url = https://archive.today/20120530172102/http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR11859.html | archive-date=May 30, 2012 }}</ref>

During Baltimore's tenure at Caltech, United States President [[Bill Clinton]] awarded Baltimore the [[National Medal of Science]] in 1999 for his numerous contributions to the scientific world. In 2004, Rockefeller University gave Baltimore its highest honor, Doctor of Science (''honoris causa'').<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bhattacharjee Y |s2cid=172731927 |title=The Balance of Justice |journal=Science |volume=304 |issue=5679 |page=1901 |date=June 25, 2004 |doi=10.1126/science.304.5679.1901a}}</ref>

In 2003, as a postdoctoral fellow in David Baltimore's lab at Caltech, [[Matthew Porteus]] was the first to demonstrate precise [[Genome editing|gene editing]] in human cells using [[chimeric nuclease]]s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Porteus MH, Baltimore D | title = Chimeric nucleases stimulate gene targeting in human cells | journal = Science | volume = 300 | issue = 5620 | pages = 763 | date = May 2003 | pmid = 12730593 | doi = 10.1126/science.1078395 | s2cid = 34460337 | url = https://authors.library.caltech.edu/51896/ }}</ref>

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president of Caltech, saying, "This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history...".<ref name="Perry2005">{{cite news| vauthors = Perry J |date=October 3, 2005|title=Baltimore to Retire as Caltech President; Will Remain at Institute as Biology Professor|work=Caltech Media Relations|url=https://www.caltech.edu/news/baltimore-retire-caltech-president-will-remain-institute-biology-professor-1049|access-date=May 21, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hotz2005">{{cite news| vauthors = Hotz RL |date=October 4, 2005|title=Caltech President Who Raised School's Profile to Step Down|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-oct-04-sci-caltech4-story.html|access-date=May 21, 2015}}</ref> Former [[Georgia Tech]] Provost [[Jean-Lou Chameau]] succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.<ref name=Perry2007>{{cite news| vauthors = Perry J |title=Caltech Presidential Inauguration — A Student Affair|url=https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-presidential-inauguration-student-affair-1268|access-date=May 21, 2015|work=Caltech Media Relations|date=April 30, 2007}}</ref> Baltimore was appointed President Emeritus and the Robert Andrews Milikan Professor of Biology at Caltech and remains an active member of the institute's community.<ref name=CaltechBio/> On January 21, 2021, Caltech president Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced the removal of the name of Caltech's founding president and first Nobel laureate, Robert A. Millikan, from campus buildings, assets, and honors due to Millikan's substantial participation in the eugenics movement. Baltimore's title was changed to "Distinguished Professor of Biology."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Five Other Eugenics Proponents from Buildings, Honors, and Assets|url=https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-to-remove-the-names-of-robert-a-millikan-and-five-other-eugenics-proponents|access-date=2021-04-14|website=California Institute of Technology|date=January 15, 2021 |language=en}}</ref>