William G. Kaelin Jr

William G. Kaelin Jr, Nobel Laureate

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 where his laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the AACR Princess Takamatsu Award . In 2019 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

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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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