Robert Lefkowitz
Robert Lefkowitz · Science & Medicine
Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
1943, New York City, United States
United States (New York · Duke University, North Carolina)
Robert Lefkowitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Born to a Jewish family in the Bronx, Lefkowitz trained as a physician before turning to research at Duke University. Over decades he identified and characterized G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) — the cell-surface antennas through which hormones, neurotransmitters and many drugs act — using radioactive labelling to trap and clone them. With his former student Brian Kobilka he won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; GPCRs are targets of roughly a third of modern medicines.
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Awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
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