William Kaelin Jr.
American Nobel Laureate, Professor of Medicine at Harvard University
William G. Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute where his laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the AACR Princess Takamatsu Award
. In 2019 he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Early life and education
Kaelin was born in New York City on November 23, 1957, to William George and Nancy Priscilla (Horn) Kaelin. Kaelin earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics and chemistry at Duke University, and stayed to attain an MD, graduating in 1982. He did his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and his fellowship in oncology at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI). After deciding as an undergraduate that research was not a strength of his, at DFCI he did research in the lab of David Livingston, where he found success in the study of retinoblastoma. In 1992, he set up his own lab at DFCI down the hall from Livingston's where he investigated hereditary forms of cancer such as von Hippel–Lindau disease.
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