Donald F. Steiner

Donald Frederick Steiner ( born July 15, 1930) is an American biochemist, known for work on the biosynthesis of insulin.

Steiner studied at the University of Cincinnati (Bachelor in Chemistry and Zoology 1952) and the University of Chicago, where in 1956 he took his master's degree in biochemistry and received his doctorate in the same year (MD). He is a professor at the University of Chicago (AN injector professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Center).

Steiner explored in 1967, the two-chain and how the insulin from its single-chain precursor molecule proinsulin produced ..

In 1971 he received the Gairdner Foundation International Award, and in 1984, the Wolf Prize in Medicine.

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