George Sachs
George Sachs · Science & Medicine
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
1935, Vienna, Austria — 2019, Los Angeles, California, USA
United Kingdom · United States
George Sachs is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Sachs was born in Vienna to a Jewish family that fled Nazi Austria for Scotland, where he trained in medicine before a career at UCLA. He discovered the gastric proton pump (the H+/K+ ATPase), the molecular machine that secretes stomach acid, and led the development of proton-pump inhibitors that treat ulcers and reflux for hundreds of millions of patients. He received the Canadian Gairdner International Award in 2004.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
