Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2009 Laureate

Douglas L Coleman, born 1931 in Ontario, Canada, is Senior Staff Scientist, Emeritus of The Jackson Laboratory, Maine, USA. He obtained his BSc degree from McMaster University in 1954 and his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin in 1958. He was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1998.

The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2009 is awarded in equal shares to Douglas L Coleman and Jeffrey M Friedman for their work leading to the discovery of leptin, a hormone that regulates food intake and body weight.