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Brian Kobilka

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Brian Kobilka

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Also known as Brian Kent Kobilka, Brian K. Kobilka, Brian K Kobilka, B. K. Kobilka, B K Kobilka, B. Kobilka, B Kobilka, Kobilka B

American physiologist

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Brian Kobilka is an American physiologist who studies how cells communicate with each other through proteins on their surfaces. His research has important applications for understanding disease and developing new medicines.

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Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1948-05-15
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5 total works indexed

  1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,951x

  2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

    · 1991 · cited 26,530x

  3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,416x

  4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

    · 2009 · cited 18,985x

  5. Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

    · 1977 · cited 18,360x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2012

    “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Brian
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Little Falls
Occupation
physician
Educated at
Duke University
Employer
Stanford University
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
Catholicism
Doctoral advisor
Robert Lefkowitz
Field of work
crystallography
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Brian Kobilka
date of birth
1955-05-30
member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
name in native language
Brian Kobilka
interested in
biochemistry
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Brian Kent Kobilka (born May 30, 1955) is an American physiologist and a recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Lefkowitz for discoveries that reveal the workings of G protein-coupled receptors. He is currently a professor in the department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder of ConfometRx, a biotechnology company focusing on G protein-coupled receptors. He was named a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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