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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Robert J. Lefkowitz

Title:

James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry

Affiliation:

Duke University Medical Center

467 Carl Bldg.

Box 3821, DUMC

Durham,North Carolina 27710 USA

Affiliation:

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

  

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Biological Sciences

Award Year:

2007

Citation:

"For his discovery of the seven transmembrane receptors, deemed the largest, most versatile, and most therapeutically accessible receptor signaling system, and for describing the general mechanism of their regulation, influencing all fields of medical practice."

Presented by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2008.

Nobel Laureate:

Chemistry, 2012

 

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