Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was an American pharmacologist and biochemist, born in Burlingame, Kansas, in 1915. He studied at Washburn College and took his medical degree at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where Carl Ferdinand Cori mentored him. From 1953 he chaired the department of pharmacology at Case Western Reserve University, where his group identified cyclic AMP and its role as a second messenger. He later held posts at Vanderbilt University and the University of Miami. He won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on how hormones such as epinephrine act, through cyclic AMP.
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Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (November 19, 1915
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was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas
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He was then accepted to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
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Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971
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was an American pharmacologist and biochemist
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was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas
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professor of pharmacology and chairman of the department of pharmacology at the school of medicine at Case Western Reserve University
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Sutherland became professor of anatomy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville
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for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones
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"awardYear": "1971"
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