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Robert Erwin Bases, MD, American Physician and cancer researcher (b. 1930). Robert Bases was born in New York City. He grew up in Washington Heights and moved to Yonkers, New York in 1943. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1947. He attended Cornell University after receiving scholarships from Cornell University and New York State. He graduated in 1951. He attended NYU School of Medicine and graduated in 1955. He was an intern in Internal Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. He completed his residency at Bellevue Hospital. He satisfied his military obligation by working at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda Maryland. He returned to New York and did a fellowship in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute. He completed his basic science training by working at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena California from 1961-1953. He studied virology with Nobel Laureate, Renato Dulbecco an Italian–American virologist who won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on oncoviruses. He then worked at the Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France from 1963-1965. He returned to the United States as junior faculty member at the Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. He retired as Professor Emeritus of Radiology and Radiation Oncology in 1992. He continued to work in his lab and publish basic science research on the mechanisms of cancer. The focus of his research has been on DNA repair of abasic sites, as well as developing chemotherapeutic adjuvant therapy of primary and secondary central nervous system tumors.

He married Judith Koshetz in 1958. He has 3 sons, David b. 1961 Hugh b. 1965 and Daniel b. 1970. He is the proud grandfather of 6 grandchildren, Rachel, Alexander, Sarah, Benjamin, Hannah and Charlie. He resides in New Rochelle, New York where is still active in basic science research at Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx New York.

His contributions to the basic science of cancer is summarized in publications of over 80 peer reviewed research papers from 1961 to present, marking significant advances in the understanding of cell pathology and pathways for clinical applications.