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:
- Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD, USA
Gregg L. Semenza
Born: 1956-07-12 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physician (born 1956)
Biography
Gregg Leonard Semenza is an American pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen-poor environments. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability" with William Kaelin Jr. and Peter J. Ratcliffe. Semenza has had thirteen research papers retracted due to falsified data.