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Robert J. Lefkowitz

Physician and biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for work on G protein-coupled receptors

United States · b. 1943

Cardiologist and investigator at Duke University who identified and cloned the adrenergic receptors. Shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his former trainee Brian Kobilka.

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self read 96 other answers →
That’s easy, my trainees. In my field, receptor biology, the field is dominated by people that I trained. Kobilka is one example. I would say I have, for years — in all due modesty — I led the field. I passed that mantle to Kobilka. He has the newest technologies and this and that. But he’s just the limit case. There are dozens and dozens of people who trained with me that, if you go to any meeting on receptor biology and you look at the program, I don’t know, 30 to 40 percent of all the speakers will have either trained with me or trained with people who trained with me. They’re in the lineage. So that’s what I’m most proud of.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, San Francisco, California, 13 September 2014 source ↗

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