Roger Guillemin Physician Dijon, 11 January 1924

Foreign member

Department of Medical Sciences

 

Membership of SASA
Foreign member since 26 October 2000

Field of study
Physiology

Education
MD (1949), University of Lyon; PhD (1953) Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery at the Université de Montréal

Career
School of Medicine, University of San Diego, California, retired full professor; Institute for diabetes and endocrinology (1989‒1994);
Laboratories for Neuroendocrinology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California (1970‒1989)

Membership of other academies
National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1974); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1977)

Awards and recognitions
the rank of Commander in the Legion of Honour. (2015);
Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology  (1977);
National Medal of Science, USA (1976):
Dickson Prize in Medicine (1976);
Lasker Award in Basic Sciences, New York (1975)