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Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist (1941–2015)
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Alfred Gilman
Alfred Goodman Gilman was born on July 1, 1941, in New Haven, Connecticut. Gilman graduated from Yale with his B.S. of Biochemistry in 1962. He then entered a M.D.-Ph.D. program at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio where he studied under Nobel laurate Earl Sutherland. Gilman graduated from Case Western in 1969, then did his post-doctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health with Nobel laurate Marshall Nirenberg from 1969 until 1971.
In 1971 Dr. Gilman became a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1981, he beame chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1989.
He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discoveries regarding G-proteins. G-proteins are a vital intermediary between the activation of receptors on the cell membrane and actions within the cell. Rodbell had shown in the 1960s that GTP was involved in cell signaling. It was Gilman who actually discovered the protiens that interacted with the GTP to initiate signal
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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 70 (1996)
Honorary member, Alpha Omega Alpha
National Academy of Sciences
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE
U.S. Public Health Service:
Member of the Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Study Section, 1946-49 and 1950-55; chairman, 1956-60
Member, Pharmacology Training Committee, 1960-63
Member, Heart Special Projects Committee, 1963-65
Advisory Council on Research, New York Heart Association, 1958-64
Scientific and Educational Council, Allergy Foundation of America
Editorial Board of American Journal of Physiology and Journal of Applied Physiology, 1950-56; consulting editor, 1956-57
Editorial Board of Pharmacological Reviews, 1948-55
Advisory Council, Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, 1960-65
Advisory Council, New York City Health Research Council, 1960-65
President, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1960-61
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council:
Member, Division of Medical Sciences, 1962-71
Executive Committee, Medical Division, 1962-64
Member, Drug Research Board, 1963-72
Chairman of Organization Committee, Drug Efficacy Review, 1966-67
Chairman of Executive Committee, Drug Efficacy Review Committee, 1967-69