biography
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Gilman, Alfred G(oodman)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1941– )
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| biography:
| Pharmacologist and educator, born in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. His interest in science began at age 10 when his father, Dr Alfred Gilman, took him to his laboratory at Albert Einstein University in New York. He went on to Yale (1962 BS) and then took his PhD at Case Western Reserve University (1969). Pursuing his specialty of pharmacology, he did research at the National Institutes of Health (1969–71) before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia (1971–81), after which he went to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (1981). He edited The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (1990, 8th edn), a leading textbook on pharmacology originated by his father. In 1994 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discovery of G proteins, substances inside the body's cells that transmit and modulate signals from both within the body and the outside environment. If the G proteins are not in a proper balance, it can affect vision and smell, or cause diseases from cholera to cancer. |
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