Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger · Science & Medicine
Biophysicist who elucidated how receptor tyrosine kinases signal, guiding targeted cancer drugs.
1945, Topusko, Yugoslavia (now Croatia)
Israel · United States
Joseph Schlessinger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Biophysicist who elucidated how receptor tyrosine kinases signal, guiding targeted cancer drugs.
Joseph Schlessinger is a biophysicist and structural biologist who elucidated how receptor tyrosine kinases—cell-surface receptors for growth factors—dimerize and transmit signals, work that underpins many targeted cancer drugs. Long based at the Weizmann Institute and later Yale, he co-founded biotechnology companies developing kinase inhibitors. He is Jewish, born in Yugoslavia to Holocaust survivors and raised in Israel.
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Biophysicist who elucidated how receptor tyrosine kinases signal, guiding targeted cancer drugs.
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