Happy 63rd birthday(23 November) to 2019 Medicine Laureate William Kaelin!
William Kaelin shared the Medicine Prize with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Oxygen sensing is central to a large number of diseases. The discoveries made by the 2019 Medicine Laureates have fundamental importance for physiology and have paved the way for promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer and many other diseases.
Intense ongoing efforts in academic laboratories and pharmaceutical companies are now focused on developing drugs that can interfere with different disease states by either activating, or blocking, the oxygen-sensing machinery.
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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. His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins.
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Born: 23 November 1957 (age 63 years), New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Spouse: Carolyn Kaelin (m. 1988–2015)
Field: Oncology
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