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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...
Biography
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.
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Nat Rev Mol Cell BiolCirc ResCellNat NeurosciTrends Pharmacol Sci
Key Publications
Seven-transmembrane receptors.
G Protein-Coupled Receptors: A Century of Research and Discovery.
GPCR-mediated β-arrestin activation deconvoluted with single-molecule precision.
Marc G. Caron (1946-2022).
An interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz.
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