Michael W. Young (Nobel 2017)

From Medscape:
A Backyard Jungle in Miami and Neurons That Promote Sleep: The Life and Work of Michael Young

Marc Gozlan, MD - November 17, 2017

Michael W. Young, PhD, is an American biologist, geneticist, investigator, and professor and vice president for academic affairs at Rockefeller University in New York City. In October, he became a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Along with co-recipients Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall, Young is credited with identifying the molecular basis of circadian rhythms.

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Dr Young has devoted his life's work to exploring the ways in which circadian rhythms arise from interactions among certain genes and their proteins, which set up molecular oscillations. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, he has been studying circadian clocks for nearly three decades./.../