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Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz: Intuition, Loss and the Discovery That Changed Modern Medicine
Nobel Laureate Robert Lefkowitz: Intuition, Loss and the Discovery That Changed Modern Medicine
Professor Robert Lefkowitz is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose discovery of G protein-coupled receptors underpins more than 700 of the drugs in use today, including beta blockers, antihistamines, antidepressants and GLP-1 medications like Ozempic. At 83 years young, he still runs his lab at Duke University, exercises an hour every day, and eats entirely plant-based food after quadruple bypass surgery at 51. In this deeply personal conversation, Professor Lefkowitz takes Méline through t...