Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. McMaster University.
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Douglas Coleman
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His work predicted that the ob gene encoded the hormone leptin, later co-discovered in 1994 by Jeffrey Friedman, Rudolph Leibel and their research teams at Rockefeller University. This work has had a major role in our understanding of the mechanisms regulating body weight and that cause of human obesity. Coleman was born in Stratford, Ontario.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University in 1954 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1958.
Achievements
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He won the Shaw Prize in 2009, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2010, the 2012 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category and the 2013 King Faisal International Prize for Medicine jointly with Jeffrey M. Friedman for the discovery of leptin.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1998.
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April 16, 2014 (aged 82) -
Nationality
Canada
Awards
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Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research; Gairdner Foundation International Award; King Faisal International Prize Shaw Prize; Lasker Award
The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine.; The Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004.The Lasker Awards have been awarded annually since 1945 to living persons who have made major contributions to medical science or who have performed public service on behalf of medicine.; The Shaw Prize is an annual award first presented by the Shaw Prize Foundation in 2004.