Jeffrey M. Friedman
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Jeffrey Friedman, MD, PhD, is a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. His work in that area has led to him receiving two prestigious awards in 2005: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award. [1] His work on lepitin has garnered him much television time, including much time on the PBS show Scientific American Frontiers in a long interview with host Alan Alda.
Friedman was born in Orlando, Florida on July 20, 1954, and grew up in North Woodmere, New York. He graduated from Hewlett High School (Class of 1971), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, in 1977, received his medical degree from Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, NY (through a combined six year program). [2] His postgrad life includes completing two residencies at Albany Medical Center Hospital, a postgraduate fellowship at Rockefeller as well as one at Cornell University Medical College. In 1986, he received a Ph.D. and became an assistant investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). [3]
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- ^ Jeffrey Friedman, discoverer of leptin, receives Gairdner, Passano awards
- ^ BioInteractive - Jeffery M. Friedman, M.D., Ph. D.
- ^ Jeffrey Friedman, discoverer of leptin, receives Gairdner, Passano awards
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