About The Keynote Speaker
On March 4, William G. Kaelin, Jr, MD, joint recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, delivered the keynote address at the inaugural Celebrate Research! event.
Renowned for his groundbreaking discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, Dr. Kaelin shared highlights from his remarkable career journey. His address will delve into the intricate mechanisms of cellular oxygen sensing and explore how these insights have paved the way for transformative treatments for conditions such as anemia and cancer.
Dr. Kaelin received his MD from Duke University in 1982 and was a house officer and chief resident in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a medical oncology clinical fellow at Dana-Farber, where he began his studies of tumor suppressor proteins. He became an independent investigator at Dana-Farber in 1992, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 2002. The 2019 Nobel was awarded jointly to Kaelin, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.