Michael W. Young
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- Born
- Michael Warren Young , ( 1949-03-28 ) March 28, 1949 (age 77) , Miami , Florida, U.S.
- Education
- University of Texas, Austin ( BA , PhD )
- Known for
- Circadian rhythms
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 , Canada Gairdner International Award 2012 , Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences 2013 , Shaw Prize 2013 , Massry Prize 2012 , Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2011 , Gruber Prize in Neuroscience 2009
- Fields
- Chronobiology , Biology
- Institutions
- University of Texas, Austin , Stanford University School of Medicine , Rockefeller University
- Thesis
- Non-essential sequences, genes, and the polytene chromosome bands of drosophila melanogaster (1975)
- Doctoral advisor
- Burke Judd
- Doctoral students
- Leslie B. Vosshall
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Michael Warren Young (born March 28, 1949) is an American biologist and geneticist. He has dedicated decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within Drosophila melanogaster.
At Rockefeller University, his lab has made significant contributions in the field of chronobiology by identifying key genes associated with regulation of the internal clock responsible for circadian rhythms. He was able to elucidate the function of the period gene, which is necessary for the fly to exhibit normal sleep cycles. Young's lab is also attributed with the discovery of the timeless and doubletime genes, which makes proteins that are also necessary for circadian rhythm. He was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
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