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Robert Joseph Lefkowitz (born April 15, 1943) is an American physician (internalist and cardiologist) and biochemist. He is best known for his groundbreaking discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka. He is currently an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry at Duke University.
Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, in The Bronx, New York to Jewish parents Max and Rose Lefkowitz. Their families had immigrated to the United States from Poland in the late 19th century.
After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science in 1959, he attended Columbia College from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry 1962.
He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966 with an M.D. Degree. After serving an internship and one year of general medical residency at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he served as Clinical and Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health from 1968 to 1970.
The Nobel Prize (Swedish pronunciation: [nʊˈbɛl], Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Norwegian: Nobelprisen) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural and/or scientific advances.
The will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901. The related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was established by Sweden's central bank in 1968. Medals made before 1980 were struck in 23 carat gold, and later from 18 carat green gold plated with a 24 carat gold coating. Between 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 573 times to 900 people and organizations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 870 individuals (822 men and 48 women) and 23 organizations.
The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden, except for the peace prize which is held in Oslo, Norway and each recipient, or laureate, receives a gold medal, a diploma and a sum of money that has been decided by the Nobel Foundation. (As of 2012, each prize was worth SEK8 million or about US$1.2 million, €0.93 million or £0.6 million.) The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established the Duke Endowment, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.
The university's campus spans over 8,600 acres (35 km2) on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Duke's main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64 m) Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is also the 7th wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.
"Doctor Robert" is a song by the Beatles released on the album Revolver in the United Kingdom and on Yesterday and Today in the United States. The song was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded in seven takes on 17 April 1966 with vocals overdubbed 19 April.
The song is written in the key of A major, though the key center is B, thereby making it in the Mixolydian mode. The musical arrangement has staggered layering, with backing vocals starting in the second verse, the lead guitar just before the bridge while the bridge itself has added harmonium and extra vocals mixed. John's lead is automatically double tracked with each of the two slightly-out-of-phase tracks split onto separate stereo channels; creating a surrealistic effect supporting the lyric about drug use. An interesting feature is the suitably "blissful" modulation (on "well, well well you're feeling fine") to the key of B on the bridge via an F#7 pivot chord (VI7 in the old key of A and V7 in the new key of B) The extended jam that lasts 43 seconds at the end was recorded, but it was removed and replaced with a fade-out. However, John says: "OK Herb", at the very last second of the song.
The name Robert is a Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic *χrōþi- "fame" and *berχta- "bright". Compare Old Dutch Robrecht and Old High German Hrodebert (a compound of hruod "fame, glory" and berht "bright"). It is also in use as a surname.
After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form Robert, where an Old English cognate form (Hrēodbēorht, Hrodberht, Hrēodbēorð, Hrœdbœrð, Hrœdberð) had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto.
Similar to the name, Richard, "Robert" is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be used as a French, Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian name as well.
Robert, and also the name Joseph, were in the top 10 most given boys' names in the US for 47 years, from 1925 to 1972.
In Italy during the Second World War, the form of the name, Roberto, briefly acquired a new meaning derived from, and referring to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/cell-biology/robert-lefkowitz-part-1.html In the first segment of the lecture, the history of discovery in the field of seven transmembrane receptor research over the past forty years is reviewed. Highlights include overcoming initial skepticism that the receptors even existed; isolating the receptors as discrete biochemical entities and demonstrating their ligand binding and functional activating properties; discovering their seven transmembrane spanning arrangement and homology with the visual light receptor rhodopsin, thereby leading to the discovery of the wider seven transmembrane receptor superfamily; determination of the structure function relationships of the receptors by mutagenesis and chimeric receptor construction; discovery of constitutiv...
DURHAM, N.C. -- Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s. They are being recognized for their work on a class of cell surface receptors that have become the target of prescription drugs, including antihistamines, ulcer drugs and beta blockers to relieve hypertension, angina and coronary disease. The receptors catch chemical signals from the outside and transmit their messages into the cell, providing the cell with information about changes occurring within the body. These particular receptors are calle...
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses his approach to science and life in a public conversation Nov. 1, 2012, with Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead. Lefkowitz is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center. Learn more here: http://spotlight.duke.edu/lefkowitz.
http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/cell-biology/robert-lefkowitz-part-2.html In part 2 of the lecture, recent discoveries about how Beta-arrestins not only desensitize the receptors but also mediate their endocytosis, as well as independent signaling pathways, are reviewed. Also covered is how these new discoveries provide a basis for designing novel classes of pharmacological agents which can promote signaling exclusively down either the G protein or Beta-arrestin mediated pathways, so called biased agonists. See more at www.ibiology.org
Robert Lefkowitz gives background on receptors and how they are activated. He also introduces the seven transmembrane receptor and its classical signaling pathway.
2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Professor Robert J. Lefkowitz "A Brief History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors" - Nobel Lecture at Uppsala Univesity 13 December 2012. For many years it has been a tradition to invite the new Nobel Prize laureates to Uppsala University in connection with the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm. The program for the visit includes a reception with the Vice Chancellor and lunch at Uppsala Castle, but also much appreciated and well-attended open lectures by the guest laureates. http://www.uu.se
Duke's Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, receives this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2012 © Nobel Media AB source: http://Nobelprize.org
Nobel Prize winning professor Dr. Robert Lefkowitz delivers his keynote address at the 2013 North Carolina Student Academy of Science conference held at NC School of Science and Math. Lefkowitz and Dr. Brian Kobilka, a former postdoctoral fellow at Duke who worked under Lefkowitz, received the Nobel Prize for their research on G-protein coupled protein receptors, research which has led to major advancements in the development of prescription drugs for a variety of issues ranging from allergies to coronary disease. This keynote address, entitled "The Reluctant Scientist," explores Lefkowitz's journey through childhood, medicine, and science, and the lessons he learned that got him to where he is today. This lecture is hosted by the N.C. Student Academy of Science, a state-wide science educa...
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University. He has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1976. He was the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a prize he shared with his former trainee Dr. Brian Kobilka, who is currently a Professor at Stanford. www.gopowerforward.com www.gopowerforward.com/blog
The classical signaling paradigm for G-protein coupled-receptors, and a brief description of beta-arrestins role in the signaling pathway.
Telephone interview with Robert J. Lefkowitz following the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 10 October 2012. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. More video and information at http://www.nobelprize.org
Robert (a/k/a r0ml) Lefkowitz is a computer professional and amateur philosopher. He has worked primarily in large IT organizations where he facilitates information flows. His interests include semasiology and medieval history. In this two part interview, he and David speak about orality, literacy, rhetoric, internationalization and graphology, and the relationship of classical culture to programming languages. This video is part of David Mertz coverage of OSCON 2011 for IBM developerWorks. David has been writing for developerWorks since 2000, including the columns Charming Python and XML Matters and a great many individual articles and tutorials. Check out his book "Text Processing in Python." ibm.com/developerworks
Interview with Prof. Robert J. Lefkowitz, winner of the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Biomedicine category.
Robert (a/k/a r0ml) Lefkowitz is a computer professional and amateur philosopher. He has worked primarily in large IT organizations where he facilitates information flows. His interests include semasiology and medieval history. In this two part interview, he and David speak about orality, literacy, rhetoric, internationalization and graphology, and the relationship of classical culture to programming languages. This video is part of David Mertz coverage of OSCON 2011 for IBM developerWorks. David has been writing for developerWorks since 2000, including the columns Charming Python and XML Matters and a great many individual articles and tutorials. Check out his book "Text Processing in Python." ibm.com/developerworks
DURHAM, N.C. -- Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s. They are being recognized for their work on a class of cell surface receptors that have become the target of prescription drugs, including antihistamines, ulcer drugs and beta blockers to relieve hypertension, angina and coronary disease. The receptors catch chemical signals from the outside and transmit their messages into the cell, providing the cell with information about changes occurring within the body. These particular receptors are calle...
Robert (a/k/a r0ml) Lefkowitz is a computer professional and amateur philosopher. He has worked in IT organizations to facilitate access to information, and create highly resilient applications. His interests include semasiology and medieval history. He also juggles clubs.
David Mertz conducted a series of interviews with Robert Lefkowitz for IBM's developerWorks. These two videos were produced by David from that longer interview, with no additional editing by developerWorks.
Duke University's President Richard H. Brodhead interviews Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center.
Nobel Prize winning professor Dr. Robert Lefkowitz delivers his keynote address at the 2013 North Carolina Student Academy of Science conference held at NC School of Science and Math. Lefkowitz and Dr. Brian Kobilka, a former postdoctoral fellow at Duke who worked under Lefkowitz, received the Nobel Prize for their research on G-protein coupled protein receptors, research which has led to major advancements in the development of prescription drugs for a variety of issues ranging from allergies to coronary disease. This keynote address, entitled "The Reluctant Scientist," explores Lefkowitz's journey through childhood, medicine, and science, and the lessons he learned that got him to where he is today. This lecture is hosted by the N.C. Student Academy of Science, a state-wide science educa...
Three of medicine's most charismatic giants (Robert Lefkowitz, Joseph Goldstein, and Michael Brown) interview each other. Lefkowitz (Duke University) is known for his seminal discoveries in understanding G protein-coupled receptor function. The legendary partnership between Brown and Goldstein (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center) has spanned four decades. Together they were awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine acknowledging their discovery of the LDL cholesterol receptor and its role in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism. Together, they talk about their beginnings in science, where they got their scientific inspiration, how to be a good mentor, and how to deal with scientific celebrity.
http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/cell-biology/robert-lefkowitz-part-1.html In the first segment of the lecture, the history of discovery in the field of seven transmembrane receptor research over the past forty years is reviewed. Highlights include overcoming initial skepticism that the receptors even existed; isolating the receptors as discrete biochemical entities and demonstrating their ligand binding and functional activating properties; discovering their seven transmembrane spanning arrangement and homology with the visual light receptor rhodopsin, thereby leading to the discovery of the wider seven transmembrane receptor superfamily; determination of the structure function relationships of the receptors by mutagenesis and chimeric receptor construction; discovery of constitutiv...
DURHAM, N.C. -- Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s. They are being recognized for their work on a class of cell surface receptors that have become the target of prescription drugs, including antihistamines, ulcer drugs and beta blockers to relieve hypertension, angina and coronary disease. The receptors catch chemical signals from the outside and transmit their messages into the cell, providing the cell with information about changes occurring within the body. These particular receptors are calle...
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses his approach to science and life in a public conversation Nov. 1, 2012, with Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead. Lefkowitz is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center. Learn more here: http://spotlight.duke.edu/lefkowitz.
http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/cell-biology/robert-lefkowitz-part-2.html In part 2 of the lecture, recent discoveries about how Beta-arrestins not only desensitize the receptors but also mediate their endocytosis, as well as independent signaling pathways, are reviewed. Also covered is how these new discoveries provide a basis for designing novel classes of pharmacological agents which can promote signaling exclusively down either the G protein or Beta-arrestin mediated pathways, so called biased agonists. See more at www.ibiology.org
Robert Lefkowitz gives background on receptors and how they are activated. He also introduces the seven transmembrane receptor and its classical signaling pathway.
2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Professor Robert J. Lefkowitz "A Brief History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors" - Nobel Lecture at Uppsala Univesity 13 December 2012. For many years it has been a tradition to invite the new Nobel Prize laureates to Uppsala University in connection with the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm. The program for the visit includes a reception with the Vice Chancellor and lunch at Uppsala Castle, but also much appreciated and well-attended open lectures by the guest laureates. http://www.uu.se
Duke's Robert J. Lefkowitz, MD, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, receives this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2012 © Nobel Media AB source: http://Nobelprize.org
Nobel Prize winning professor Dr. Robert Lefkowitz delivers his keynote address at the 2013 North Carolina Student Academy of Science conference held at NC School of Science and Math. Lefkowitz and Dr. Brian Kobilka, a former postdoctoral fellow at Duke who worked under Lefkowitz, received the Nobel Prize for their research on G-protein coupled protein receptors, research which has led to major advancements in the development of prescription drugs for a variety of issues ranging from allergies to coronary disease. This keynote address, entitled "The Reluctant Scientist," explores Lefkowitz's journey through childhood, medicine, and science, and the lessons he learned that got him to where he is today. This lecture is hosted by the N.C. Student Academy of Science, a state-wide science educa...
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University. He has been an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1976. He was the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, a prize he shared with his former trainee Dr. Brian Kobilka, who is currently a Professor at Stanford. www.gopowerforward.com www.gopowerforward.com/blog
The classical signaling paradigm for G-protein coupled-receptors, and a brief description of beta-arrestins role in the signaling pathway.
Watch the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Commencement 2017. Medical students receiving their M.D. degrees and dual M.D./Ph.D. degrees. Along with Graduate students receiving their Ph.D. degrees. #MayoClinicGrad Commencement speaker Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz, M.D. received the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.
Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, a winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, discusses his approach to science and life in a public conversation Nov. 1, 2012, with Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead. Lefkowitz is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center. Learn more here: http://spotlight.duke.edu/lefkowitz.
Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz http://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/107/ Linux is Great. And part of that greatness was, at one time, attributable to the ascendency of Free Software. Now that Free Software is in decline, it behooves us to reflect upon how to keep Linux great *despite* the fact that it is Free Software. The underlying motivation for Linux and Free Software was (and is) to democratize software -- making it more accessible to all. Free Software used to be the best strategy for doing so. Now that the challenges for democratization have mutated, we must figure out new strategies for democratizing software, and keeping Linux great. This talk will review the changes in the technology environment that have led to the decline of free software, and the emerging opportuni...
Three of medicine's most charismatic giants (Robert Lefkowitz, Joseph Goldstein, and Michael Brown) interview each other. Lefkowitz (Duke University) is known for his seminal discoveries in understanding G protein-coupled receptor function. The legendary partnership between Brown and Goldstein (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center) has spanned four decades. Together they were awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine acknowledging their discovery of the LDL cholesterol receptor and its role in the regulation of cholesterol metabolism. Together, they talk about their beginnings in science, where they got their scientific inspiration, how to be a good mentor, and how to deal with scientific celebrity.
From OSCON 2013: Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz (Sharewave) presents how throughout history, the virtue of literacy has been in reading. Reading was the gateway to knowledge, and as a society, we valued literacy because of the uplifting power of reading. Within the last fifty years, a cultural shift began, led by the free software movement, which started to move the locus of virtue in literacy from reading to writing. This shift is seen not only in open source development, but also social media in all its forms. In fact, one can argue that the defining difference between pre-social media and social media is the rise in the importance of writing relative to reading. The implications of this shift are as profound as the transition from orality to literacy. Don't miss an upload! Subscribe! http://g...
2012 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Professor Robert J. Lefkowitz "A Brief History of G-Protein Coupled Receptors" - Nobel Lecture at Uppsala Univesity 13 December 2012. For many years it has been a tradition to invite the new Nobel Prize laureates to Uppsala University in connection with the Nobel Prize festivities in Stockholm. The program for the visit includes a reception with the Vice Chancellor and lunch at Uppsala Castle, but also much appreciated and well-attended open lectures by the guest laureates. http://www.uu.se
At a press conference Oct. 10, 2012, at the Duke University School of Nursing, Dr. Robert Lefkowitz reacts to the announcement that morning that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Stanford's Brian Kobilka. Lefkowitz is a professor of biochemistry, immunology and medicine at Duke, and also a basic research cardiologist in the Duke Heart Center. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Learn more here: http://spotlight.duke.edu/lefkowitz.
This half hour documentary recognises four scientists whose work has enabled huge leaps forward in our understanding of medical research: 2012 Chemistry Laureates Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka and 2012 Medicine Laureates Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka. The Laureates talk about their background, their work, and the story behind their groundbreaking research. Leading scientists explain how this work has influenced them, and patients tell us how they have been helped by these medical developments. Credits: Blakeway Productions Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2012 Retrieved from: http://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=1781 Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/GgiM/