| Dr. Roger Guillemin |
- Born in France on January 11, 1924 in the small town of Dijon, the capital of Burgundy.
- Educated in the public schools and local lycée.
- M.D. degree from the Faculté de Médecine of Lyon in 1949
- Ph.D. degree in physiology in 1953.
- Studied under Hans Selyes at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the University of Montreal.
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- In 1953, joined the staff of the Department of Physiology at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as assistant professor. Taught physiology at Baylor College of Medicine for 18 years, until 1970.
- 1970 joined the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA
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- Won the Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine 1977 for discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain
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- Served for 11 years on several advisory groups (Study Sections) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a member of the Council of the American Endocrine Society from 1969-1973.
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- Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, in 1974, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1976.
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- Honored by several national and international scientific recognitions: The Gairdner International Award, Toronto, Canada, 1974; The Dickson Prize in Medicine, The University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1976. The Passano Award in the Medical Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, 1976; The Lasker Award in Basic Sciences, New York, 1975; and recently the National Medal of Science presented by the President of the USA.
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- Honorary degrees, from the University of Rochester (D.Sc.), 1976; the University of Chicago (D.Sc.), 1977; and the Légion d'Honneur from the French government in 1973.
- Major Honors include having been asked to deliver numerous memorial lectures, in particular the Harvey Lecture, The Rockefeller University, New York, 1974; the Jane Russell Wilhelmi Memorial Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1976; the Geoffrey W. Harris Memorial Lecture, International Congress of Endocrinology, Hamburg, Germany, 1976; The Gregory Pincus Memorial Lecture, The Laurentian Hormone Conference, 1976; The Herbert M. Evans, Memorial Lecture, University of California in San Francisco, 1977.
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