10 Notable alumni of
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is 2360th in the world, 827th in North America, and 781st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 10 notable alumni from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 5 individuals affiliated with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine.
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Brett Giroir
- Occupations
- pediatricianbusiness executivecivil servant
- Biography
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Brett P. Giroir is an American pediatrician. He was formerly the U.S. assistant secretary for health, a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and an acting Food and Drug Administration commissioner.
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Linda B. Buck
- Enrolled in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- biologistphysicianuniversity teacherneuroscientist
- Biography
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Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. She is currently on the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
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Bruce Beutler
- Occupations
- university teacherscientistphysicianimmunologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Bruce Alan Beutler is an American immunologist and geneticist. Together with Jules A. Hoffmann, he received one-half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for "discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity." Beutler discovered the long-elusive receptor for lipopolysaccharide (LPS; also known as endotoxin). He did so by identifying spontaneous mutations in the gene coding for mouse Toll-like receptor 4 (Tlr4) in two unrelated strains of LPS-refractory mice and proving they were responsible for that phenotype. Subsequently, and chiefly through the work of Shizuo Akira, other TLRs were shown to detect signature molecules of most infectious microbes, in each case triggering an innate immune response.
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Alfred G. Gilman
- Awards
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994
- Born in
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United States - Years
- 1941-2015 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistpharmacologistpharmacistphysiologist
- Biography
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Alfred Goodman Gilman was an American pharmacologist and biochemist. He and Martin Rodbell shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells."
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Joseph L. Goldstein
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistgeneticist
- Biography
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Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases, notably coronary heart disease. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs.
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Michael Stuart Brown
- Occupations
- university teacherphysiciangeneticist
- Biography
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Michael Stuart Brown ForMemRS NAS AAA&S APS is an American geneticist and Nobel laureate. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph L. Goldstein in 1985 for describing the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.
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Johann Deisenhofer
- Occupations
- biophysicistphysicistuniversity teacherbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Johann Deisenhofer is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
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Francisco G. Cigarroa
- Enrolled in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa is an American transplant surgeon who served as chancellor of the University of Texas System. As a Mexican-American, Cigarroa is also the first Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). Cigarroa currently serves as chairman of the Ford Foundation. He also serves as the head of pediatric transplant surgery at UTHSCSA.
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Robert Cluck
- Occupations
- politiciangynaecologistobstetrician
- Biography
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Robert Nance Cluck, Jr. is an American obstetrician-gynecologist and politician. He was elected to the office of Mayor of the City of Arlington in May 2003 after serving two terms on the city council. He represented Council District 4. On May 9, 2015, Cluck was defeated by Jeff Williams, who is now mayor of the City of Arlington.
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Randall Friese
- Born in
- United States
- Enrolled in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Graduated with Master of Science in clinical science
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Randall Scott Friese is an American surgeon and politician from the state of Arizona. A member of the Democratic Party, Friese served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2015 through 2021, when he resigned to focus on his medical career.
