Lefkowitz wins the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in biomedicine

posted January 27th, 2010

Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University Medical Center, has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in biomedicine for his discoveries of the seven transmembrane receptors (G protein-coupled receptors), "the largest, most versatile and most therapeutically accessible receptor signaling system, and of the general mechanism of their regulation.”

 

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