Randal J. Kaufman is the director and a professor of the Degenerative Diseases Program, Neuroscience and Aging Center at

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(SBP) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the

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Biography

Kaufman received his BA at the

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and went on to obtain his Ph.D. in pharmacology at

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and undertook postdoctoral studies at the Center for Cancer Research at

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, where he was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate

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. From 1994–2011, Kaufman was Professor of Biological Chemistry and Internal Medicine, Endowed Chair of Medicine and Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Research Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School. He joined SBP in 2011.

Awards and honors

* 1993: Dr. Murray Thelin Award, National Hemophilia Foundation * 1998: International Association Francaise Des Hemophiles Award, "Prix Henri Chaigneau" * 1999: Investigator Recognition Award, Intl. Soc. Thrombosis & Haemostasis (ISTH) * 2000: Distinguished Investigator Award-MI Hemophilia Society * 2003: Van Wezel Prize, European Society of Animal Cell Technology (ESACT) * 2006: Fellow of the

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* 2007-2017: NIH NIDDK MERIT Award * 2014, 2015: Thomson Reuters World's Most Influential Scientific Minds in Biochemistry & Biology * 2015: Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR), Clinical Science Award * 2016: Endowed Chair in Cell Biology. SBP Medical Discovery Institute * 2019: Clarivate's Web of Science Group of Highly Cited Researchers * 2021: Clarivate's Web of Science Group of Highly Cited Researchers

References

External links

List of publications on pubmed
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