Robert J. Lefkowitz MD
Robert J. Lefkowitz MD
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
National Medal of Science – Biological Sciences 2007 USA
Nobel co-recipient Brian K. Kobilka
Name: Robert J. Lefkowitz
Birth: 15 April, 1943, New York, USA
Institution: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Award: “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
Subject: Biochemistry
Portion of cash: 1/2
approximately half of all medicines used today use this kind of receptor.“Strong family history of coronary artery disease … at age 50 I had quadruple bypass surgery [1994]. I minimize my risk factors with daily physical exercise, a vegetarian diet and appropriate medications”.
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Nat’l Medal – Biological Sciences
The President’s National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Title: James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
Affiliation: Duke University Medical Center 467 Carl Bldg. Box 3821, DUMC
Durham,North Carolina 27710 USA
Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Gender: Male
Award Discipline: Biological Sciences
Award Year: 2007
Citation: “For his discovery of the seven transmembrane receptors, deemed the largest, most versatile, and most therapeutically accessible receptor signaling system, and for describing the general mechanism of their regulation, influencing all fields of medical practice.”
Presented by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2008.