Henri G. Hers
Belgian physiologist and biochemist
Henri-Géry Hers (23 July 1923 – 14 December 2008) was a Belgian physiologist and biochemist, and a professor at the Universite Catholique de Louvain. He was notable for his work on carbohydrate metabolism and genetic disorders associated with it. An example is Hers' disease - Glycogen storage disease type VI - caused by deficiency of hepatic phosphorylase associated with an enlarged liver and mild hypoglycaemia.[1] In 1966, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Biological and Medical Sciences, and in 1975 was awarded the Gairdner Foundation International Award of the Gairdner Foundation.
References
- ^ Lederer B, Van Hoof F, Van den Berghe G, Hers H., Glycogen phosphorylase and its converter enzymes in haemolysates of normal human subjects and of patients with type VI glycogen-storage disease. A study of phosphorylase kinase deficiency, Biochem J. 1975 Apr;147(1):23–35
External links
- Henri G. Hers Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (picture)
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Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Medicine
- George Snell / Jean Dausset / Jon J. van Rood (1978)
- Roger Sperry / Arvid Carlsson / Oleh Hornykiewicz (1979)
- César Milstein / Leo Sachs / James L. Gowans (1980)
- Barbara McClintock / Stanley Norman Cohen (1981)
- Jean-Pierre Changeux / Solomon H. Snyder / James W. Black (1982)
- Donald F. Steiner (1984/5)
- Osamu Hayaishi (1986)
- Pedro Cuatrecasas / Meir Wilchek (1987)
- Henri G. Hers / Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1988)
- John Gurdon / Edward B. Lewis (1989)
- Maclyn McCarty (1990)
- Seymour Benzer (1991)
- Judah Folkman (1992)
- Michael Berridge / Yasutomi Nishizuka (1994/5)
- Stanley B. Prusiner (1995/6)
- Mary F. Lyon (1996/7)
- Michael Sela / Ruth Arnon (1998)
- Eric Kandel (1999)
- Avram Hershko / Alexander Varshavsky (2001)
- Ralph L. Brinster / Mario Capecchi / Oliver Smithies (2002/3)
- Robert Weinberg / Roger Y. Tsien (2004)
- Alexander Levitzki / Anthony R. Hunter / Tony Pawson (2005)
- Howard Cedar / Aharon Razin (2008)
- Axel Ullrich (2010)
- Shinya Yamanaka / Rudolf Jaenisch (2011)
- Ronald M. Evans (2012)
- Nahum Sonenberg / Gary Ruvkun / Victor Ambros (2014)
- John Kappler / Philippa Marrack / Jeffrey V. Ravetch (2015)
- Lewis C. Cantley / C. Ronald Kahn (2016)
- James P. Allison (2017)
- Jeffrey M. Friedman (2019)
- Emmanuelle Charpentier / Jennifer Doudna (2020)
- Joan Steitz / Lynne Elizabeth Maquat / Adrian Krainer (2021)
- Daniel J. Drucker (2023)
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