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IRIC welcomed Dr. Robert Lefkowitz
Published on June 1, 2017
Today, IRIC welcomed Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, Laureate of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Lefkowitz is also a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
He presented a lecture titled GPCRs and ACRs (Arrestin-coupled receptors): A Tale of Two Transducers
Dr. Lefkowitz has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science, the Shaw Prize, the Albany Prize, and the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Brian Kobilka, MD., for their studies of G-protein-coupled receptors. Mr. Kobilka was also welcomed to IRIC a few weeks ago.
As part of his visit, the Institute held a mini-symposium during which eight guest speakers affiliated to various universities and who received training in the Lefkowitz Lab presented their most recent work.