Michael N. Hall
Michael N. Hall · Science & Medicine
Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
1953, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico · Peru · Venezuela · United States · Switzerland (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Michael N. Hall is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
Hall, an American–Swiss molecular biologist of partial Jewish background (Jewish mother, per Jewish biographical sources), discovered the protein TOR (target of rapamycin) at the Biozentrum in Basel in the early 1990s. TOR turned out to be the central controller of cell growth in response to nutrients, a pathway now central to cancer, diabetes and ageing research. He received the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences in 2023.
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Discovered the TOR pathway governing cell growth; Grande Médaille (2023); Jewish mother
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences
