Robert Lefkowitz - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	15-April-1943
Place of Birth	The Bronx (United States of America, New York City, New York)
Nationality	United States of America
Also know as	Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz
Profession	Physician, Professor
Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician-scientist best known for his work with G protein-coupled receptors, for which, with Brian Kobilka, he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. 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.

Awards by Robert Lefkowitz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Lefkowitz.

2012

Nobel Prize in Chemistry	(for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors)

2007

National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences	(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.)

1988

Gairdner Foundation International Award	(For contributions to our understanding of the structure and regulation of adrenergic receptors.)

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