Robert Joseph Lefkowitz is an American physician, an internist and cardiologist, and a biochemist, born in the Bronx in 1943. He studied chemistry at Columbia College and took his medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966. He is best known for discoveries that reveal how the large family of G protein-coupled receptors works, for which he shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University.
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Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943)
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is an American physician (internist and cardiologist)
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for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka
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He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka
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is an American physician (internist and cardiologist)
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is an American physician (internist and cardiologist)
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reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors
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