William Kaelin Jr.
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William "Bill" G. Kaelin Jr. is a professor of medicine at Harvard University. Kaelin is a 2016 recipient of the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He also has won the 2016 ASCO Science of Oncology Award, and 2016 AACR Princess Takamatsu Award.[2][3] His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins.
He became Assistant Director of Basic Science at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in 2008. His research at Dana-Farber has focused on understanding the role of mutations in tumor suppressor genes in cancer development. His major work has been on the retinoblastoma, von Hippel-Lindau, and p53 tumor suppressor genes.
His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and others.[4]
Kaelin earned his bachelor's in math and chemistry at Duke University, and remained for his MD, graduating in 1982. He did his residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins and oncology fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After deciding as an undergraduate that research was not a strength of his, at DFCI he did research in the lab of David Livingston, where he found success in the study of retinoblastoma.[1] In 1992, he set up his own lab at DFCI down the hall from Livingston's where he researched hereditary forms of cancer such as von Hippel-Lindau. He became a professor at Harvard Medical School in 2002.[5]
He is a member of the board of directors at Eli Lilly[5] and the Stand Up to Cancer scientific advisory committee.[6]
He was married to breast cancer surgeon Dr. Carolyn Kaelin (Scerbo) from 1988 until her death from cancer in 2015. They have two children.[7]
Awards
- NIH Physician-Scientist Award (1990)[3]
- James S. McDonnell Scholar Award (1993)
- Paul Marks Prize, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2001)
- Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, AACR (2006)
- Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Investigator Award (2006)
- Duke University School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award (2007)
- Elected member of the Institute of Medicine (2007)
- AICR Colin Thomson Medal (2008)
- Canada Gairdner International Award (2010)[8]
- Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
- Alfred Knudson Award in Cancer Genetics, NCI (2011)
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award (2012)
- The Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Foundation (2012)[9]
- Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences (2014)
- Elected fellow of the AACR Academy (2014)
- Steven C. Beering Award (2014)[10]
- Science of Oncology Award, ASCO (2016)
- Princess Takamatsu Award, AACR (2016)
- Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2016)
References
- 1 2 "William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD - HHMI.org". hhmi.org. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ↑ "Dr. William G. Kaelin, Jr., to Receive 2016 Science of Oncology Award". asco.org. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- 1 2 "About William Kaelin". harvard.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ↑ "Home page kaelin lab". harvard.edu. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- 1 2 "William G. Kaelin, Jr., M.D." lilly.com. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ↑ "William G. Kaelin Jr., MD". aacr.org. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- ↑ Grady, Denise (9 August 2015). "Carolyn Kaelin, Breast Cancer Surgeon, Patient Advocate and Patient, Dies at 54". Retrieved 16 April 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ http://www.gairdner.org/content/william-g-kaelin
- ↑ "William G. Kaelin". Institut de France. Grands Prix des Fondations. 2015-04-21. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
- ↑ http://faculty.medicine.iu.edu/awards-services/awards/beering-award/
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