William G. Kaelin Jr

Born: 1957-11-23 in New York, NY, USA

Gender: male

Field: American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University

Biography

William G. Kaelin Jr. is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins. In 2016, Kaelin received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the AACR Princess Takamatsu Award. He also won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019 along with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza.

Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019

Awarded on: 2019-10-07

"for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"

Affiliations:

Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA, USA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute – Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Boston, MA, USA
Brigham and Women's Hospital – Boston, MA, USA

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