Roger Guillemin

Roger Guillemin ( born January 11, 1924 in Dijon, France) is a neuroendocrinologist who received the Nobel prize for Medicine in 1977 for his work on neurohormones.

Guillemin received his MD degree from the Medical Faculty in Lyon in 1949, and went to Montreal, Canada to work with Hans Selye at the Institute of Experimental Medicine and Surgery where he received a Ph.D. in 1953. The same year he joinded the faculty at Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston. In 1970 he started the Laboratory for Neuroendocrinology at the Salk Institute, San Diego where he worked until retirement in 1989. He, and Andrew V. Schally, first described the structure of TRH and GnRH.

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