Nuclear Receptor - History

History

Below is a brief selection of key events in the history of nuclear receptor research.

  • 1905 – Ernest Starling coined the word hormone
  • 1926 – Edward Calvin Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein isolated and determined the structures of cortisone and thyroxine
  • 1929 – Adolf Butenandt and Edward Adelbert Doisy – independently isolated and determined the structure of estrogen
  • 1958 – Elwood Jensen – isolated the estrogen receptor
  • 1980s – cloning of the estrogen, glucocorticoid, and thyroid hormone receptors by Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans, and Björn Vennström respectively
  • 2004 – Pierre Chambon, Ronald Evans, and Elwood Jensen were awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, an award that frequently precedes a Nobel Prize in Medicine

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