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Brian Kobilka

Brian Kobilka, MD
Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology
Stanford University 

Brian Kobilka received Bachelor of Science Degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1977. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1981 and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the Barnes Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri in 1984. From 1984-1989 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Robert Lefkowitz at Duke University. In 1989 he joined the faculty of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University. Research in the Kobilka lab focuses on the structure and mechanism of action of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs comprise the largest family of receptors for hormones and neurotransmitters in the human genome. The Kobilka lab applies a spectrum of biochemical, biophysical and structural approaches to understand GPCR signaling at the molecular level. Dr. Kobilka is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012, Brian Kobilka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Robert Lefkowitz, for his work in determining the structure of a GPCR in inactive and G protein-coupled states.

 

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