"They called us the Yellow Berets — MDs who opted to do their public service by engaging in research at the National Institutes of Health.
He and Peter Laird were the original investigators of the epigenetic portion of The Cancer Genome Atlas.
[2] He co-leads, with Peter Jones, a Stand Up To Cancer team science initiative in regulatory epigenetics, the VARI-SU2C Epigenetics Dream Team, and as part of this has an appointment to the faculty of the Van Andel Research Institute.
[4][5] In 2010, he was featured in GQ's "Rock Stars of Science" to publicize biomedical researchers.
[2] Baylin, Peter Jones and Andrew Feinberg were awarded the 2022-2023 Harvey Prize in Science and Technology for their seminal contributions to the field of Cancer Epigenetics.