Gregg L. Semenza

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Pediatrician and professor

Gregg Leonard Semenza is a pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker... Wikipedia

Place of birth: Flushing, New York, NY

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, and Canada Gairdner International Award

Education: University of Pennsylvania, Sleepy Hollow High School, and Washington Irving Intermediate School

Spouse: Laura Kasch-Semenza

Books: Transcription Factors and Human Disease

Nationality: American

Thesis: Molecular genetic analysis of the silent carrier of beta thalassemia (haplotype) (1984)