# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-lefkowitz
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:25:24.825Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-lefkowitz"
name: "Robert Lefkowitz"
slug: "robert-lefkowitz"
description: "Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician and biochemist. He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University."
tagline: "American physician and biochemist"
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birthDate: "1943-04-15"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump