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Novel mechanisms of signal transduction modulated by G-protein coupled receptorsA. Donny Strosberg was trained as a Dr. Sci at the Free University of Brussels and did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University in Boston. After serving at Harvard Medical School as an Instructor and later as a visiting Professor, he became Professor of Biochemistry and Immunology first in Brussels and then in Paris where he is currently on leave from the University. Professor Strosberg trained 46 PhD students and nearly twice as many postdoctoral fellows. He now serves as Professor of Infectology at the Florida Division of The Scripps Research Institute. The teams that he directed at various Universities, and at the Pasteur and Cochin Institutes, made several seminal discoveries; these include the first rabbit monoclonal antibodies, latent allotypes, anti-idiotypic antibodies activating receptors, the first protein sequences of a nicotinic acetylcholine and of a noradrenaline receptor, the first cloning and characterization of the b3 adrenergic receptor and the correlation of variants of this receptor and of leptin with human adult obesity. These results and others were published in over 370 peer-reviewed original scientific articles, in several books and dozens of book chapters. He holds nearly 20 issued patents of which many were licensed to pharmaceutical companies. Click Here to view an abstract of this paper

• Release Date

  Oct 2, 2009

• Runtime

  50:13