Alfred G. Gilman

Alfred Goodman Gilman ( born July 1, 1941 in New Haven, Connecticut ) is an American pharmacologist.

Gilman is the son of the pharmacologist and professor at Yale University, Alfred Gilman, Sr. ( 1908-1984 ). The middle name Goodman he received in honor of a colleague of his father, pharmacologists, Louis S. Goodman ( 1906-2000 ). By the year 1962, he studied at Yale University, then at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

In 1971, Gilman was a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 1984, he received a Gairdner Foundation International Award. In 1986 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Richard Lounsbery Award he received in 1987. 1989 Gilman was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize - and in 1975 he received the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology. In 1994 he received along with Martin Rodbell the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of cell communication and in particular the discovery of G- proteins ".

Since 1981 Gilman directs the "Department of Pharmacology " at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is also Chancellor of the local Medical School and directs the academic research of the University. In 2000, he established the " Alliance for Cellular Signalling ", an international and interdisciplinary collaboration of 50 researchers and 20 research centers to decrypt the signal transduction. It was 1980, 1985 and 1990, lead author of the respective obligations of the known pharmacology textbook The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.

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