Bert W. O’Malley is the Tom Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Chancellor at

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. A native of

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, he has a bachelor's degree from the

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(A&S 1959) and a M.D. from their School of Medicine (1963). He completed his residency at

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and spent four years at the

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followed by four years serving as the Luscious Birch Professor and the director of the Reproductive Biology Center at

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. He then moved to Baylor as Professor and Chairman of Molecular and Cellular Biology. O’Malley's work has been on the primary actions of steroid hormones and nuclear receptors. Bert elucidated the overall genetic transcriptional pathway of steroid and intracellular hormone action, discovered nuclear receptor(NR) coactivators (CoAs), discovered the functional 3-D structures CoA-NR complexes on DNA, and the critical roles for coactivators in physiology and diseases. He has published over 700 papers and holds 29 patents in the fields of gene regulation, molecular endocrinology and steroid receptors and transcriptional coactivators. His work on molecular mechanisms of steroid receptor coactivators has great relevance to genetic and reproductive diseases, disorders of metabolism and diabetes, myocardial infarct induced heart failure, and especially, cancers. He is considered as the 'father of molecular endocrinology' and has received over 65 national/international awards/prizes for his scientific achievements in this field. He was awarded the

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on September 29, 2008. O'Malley is a brother of the

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fraternity and was initiated at the Gamma Sigma chapter at the University of Pittsburgh.

Honors and awards

Dickson Prize The Dickson Prize in Medicine and the Dickson Prize in Science were both established in 1969 by Joseph Z. Dickson and Agnes Fischer Dickson. Dickson Prize in Medicine The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually by the University of Pittsburg ...

, 1979 *Fred Conrad Koch Medal in 1998 *President of the Endocrine Society in 1985 *Member

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, 1992 *Rodbell Award (NIH) in 2001 *Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for Biology in 2001 *Brinker Award in Breast Cancer Research in 2001 *Pasarow Award in Cancer Research in 2006 *Carl Hartman Award for Reproductive Research in 2007 *

, 2008 *Steven Beering Award in Medical Research in 2009 *

Ernst Schering Prize The Ernst Schering Prize is awarded annually by the Ernst Schering Foundation for especially outstanding basic research in the fields of medicine, biology or chemistry anywhere in the world. Established in 1991 by the Ernst Schering Research Foun ...

, 2011 *Ipsen Foundation Research Prize in Endocrinology in 2013 *Outstanding Innovation Award (End.Soc.) in 2015 *Jensen Lifetime Achievement Award (U.Cinn.) in 2018 *

Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemist ...

, 2018 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize 2018
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; National Academy of Inventors. *Fellow,

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, 1996 *Fellow,

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*Fellow

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*Fellow American Association for Cancer Research * honorary doctorate

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consis ...

* honorary doctorate

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* honorary doctorate

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* honorary doctorate

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* honorary doctorate

* honorary doctorate University of Athens, Greece * All publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/bert.o'malley.1/bibliography/43117136/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

References

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