Jeffrey M. Friedman

Jeffrey Michael Friedman ( born July 20, 1954 in Orlando, Florida) is an American molecular geneticist and professor at the Rockefeller University in New York City.

Life

Friedman studied medicine at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated at the age of 22 years, the study at Albany Medical College of Union University in Albany, New York, with the MD from. Initially, he worked as a physician in internal medicine at Albany Medical Center Hospital.

After a year of research assistant at Mary Jeanne Kreek at Rockefeller University in New York City Friedman joined the research. In 1986, he earned at James E. Darnell at Rockefeller University a Ph.D. and there was both an assistant professor and researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the same year. His dissertation was titled The regulation of gene expression is an integral element in the development of a multicellular organism from the fertilized egg totipotential. Since 1995, Friedman has been a Professor at The Rockefeller University.

Work

Building on the work of Douglas Coleman discovered Friedman 1994, the fat cell hormone leptin ( a polypeptide ) and described in the sequence its effects on metabolism and its importance for the regulation of appetite and food intake, body weight and body fat percentage.

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