Douglas L. Coleman
Canadian-American physiologist and biochemist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Douglas L. Coleman (October 6, 1931 - April 16, 2014) was a scientist and professor emeritus at the Jackson Laboratory, in Bar Harbor, Maine. His work predicted that there exists a hormone that can cause mice to feel full, and that a mutation in the gene encoding this hormone can lead to obesity.[3] The gene and corresponding hormone were discovered about 20 years later by Jeffrey M. Friedman, Rudolph Leibel, and their research teams at Rockefeller University, which Friedman named leptin.[4]
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Douglas L. Coleman | |
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Born | Douglas Leonard Coleman[1] (1931-10-06)October 6, 1931 |
Died | April 16, 2014(2014-04-16) (aged 82) |
Education | McMaster University (BSc) University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) |
Known for | Prediction of the existence of leptin |
Spouse |
Beverly J. Benallick
(died 2009) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | Canada Gairdner International Award Shaw Prize in Life science and Medicine Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award King Faisal International Prize in Medicine |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physiology Biochemistry |
Institutions | Jackson Laboratory |
Thesis | Studies on the saturation of sterols by intestinal bacteria (1958) |
Doctoral advisor | Carl August Baumann |
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