Jeffrey M. Friedman
US Physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight. · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1954 · age 72
Jeffrey M. Friedman is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity.
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2020Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesAward2019Wolf Prize in MedicineAward2018Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2014Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward2013King Faisal International Prize in MedicineAward2012BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge AwardAwardEndocrine Regulation PrizeAward2010Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical ResearchAwardClarivate Citation LaureatesAward2009Keio Medical Science PrizeAwardShaw Prize in Life Science and MedicineAward2005Canada Gairdner International AwardAward2001Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases ResearchAward1996Heinrich Wieland PrizeAward1954Born20 July 1954
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Friedman is a physician scientist studying the genetic mechanisms that regulate body weight.
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United States
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Born 1954 · age 72
The same award as Jeffrey
Ronald M. EvansBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases Research
C. Ronald KahnBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases ResearchPhilip CohenBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases Research
C. Ronald KahnBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases ResearchPhilip CohenBoth received Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Metabolic Diseases Research
