Stuart Orkin
Stuart Orkin · Science & Medicine
Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
1946, United States
United States (Harvard Medical School · Boston Children's Hospital)
Stuart Orkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Orkin, a physician-scientist at Harvard and Boston Children's Hospital, mapped how blood cells develop and how the switch from fetal to adult hemoglobin is controlled; his identification of the regulator BCL11A pointed directly to the gene-editing therapies now curing sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. He received the 2022 Canada Gairdner International Award. Orkin appears in specialist indexes of Jewish scientists; his published biographies do not detail his background.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
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Gairdner Award (biomedicine)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Gairdner Foundation Awards
