The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2012
Awarded on: 2012-10-10
"for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University School of Medicine – Stanford, CA, USA
Brian K. Kobilka
Born: 1955-05-30 in Little Falls, MN, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physiologist
Biography
Brian Kent Kobilka is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.