• Source: Elwood V. Jensen

      • Elwood Vernon Jensen (January 13, 1920 – December 16, 2012) was the Distinguished University Professor, George and Elizabeth Wile Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine's Vontz Center for Molecular Studies. In 2004 he received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his research on estrogen receptors. He is considered the father of the field of hormone action.


      Life


      Jensen was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in the United States, received his bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University in 1940 and PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1944. From 1947 Jensen studied steroid hormones at Chicago, where he isolated estrogen receptors and discovered their importance in breast cancer.
      Jensen worked closely with Nobel laureate Charles Huggins; he joined the research team at the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer (now the Ben May Department of Cancer Research) in 1951 and became director after Huggins retired. Jensen first described the estrogen receptor in 1958 and subsequently discovered the superfamily of nuclear hormone receptors along with a unifying mechanism that regulates embryonic development and diverse metabolic pathways.
      At the University of Chicago, Professor Jensen was the Charles B. Huggins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.
      He began work at the University of Cincinnati in 2002, and continued there until 2011.
      He died aged 92 of pneumonia at Cincinnati in 2012.


      Awards


      1963, Honorary DSc, Wittenberg College
      1974, member of the National Academy of Sciences
      1980, Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement
      2002, Brinker International Award
      2004, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
      2005, Honorary MD, University of Athens


      References




      External links


      Announcement that Jensen has received Lasker Award
      An Annual Reviews Conversations Interview with Elwood V. Jensen Annual Review of Physiology (2011)
      Youtube video of the interview with The Annual Review of Physiology, 2011.

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