Ronald M. Evans
Ronald Mark Evans ( born April 17, 1949 in East Los Angeles ) is an American microbiologist and physiologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, San Diego.
Life
Evans earned in 1970 at the University of California, Los Angeles, a BA in bacteriology and in 1974 a Ph.D. in microbiology. From 1975 to 1978, he held a position as a post-doctoral researcher at Rockefeller University in New York City. A first junior professorship ( Assistant Professor in 1978, Associate Professor 1983) he received at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. A first (unscheduled ) Professor ( Adjunct Professor ) at a university took over Evans in 1985 at the University of California at San Diego Department of Biology in 1989 at the School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Sciences, in addition, since 1995 the Department of Neurosciences. Since 1986, Evans is also a professor at the Salk Institute, he was there several times faculty chairman.
Work
1986 cloned Pierre Chambon and Ronald M. Evans independently the nuclear receptors for thyroid hormones ( thyroid hormone receptor ) and glucocorticoids ( glucocorticoid receptor ), for which she shared with Elwood V. Jensen, who in 1958 discovered the estrogen receptor with the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2004 were awarded. As a result of this work a number of other hormone receptors and nuclear receptors have been discovered that play important functions in energy, fat and muscle metabolism, metabolic diseases, in the regulation of inflammatory processes and in cancer and which are suitable as targets for such therapies.
Awards (selection)
Evans received numerous other academic awards; He is a member of several other scientific societies and co-editor of several scientific journals.
Swell
- Isiknowledge.com in the Internet Archive
- Ronald M. Evans at hhmi.org