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William G. Kaelin Jr.

William Kaelin is the Nobel laureate whose work on VHL and HIF-2α led directly to belzutifan.

Shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how cells sense oxygen; his VHL-HIF work defined the target for HIF-2α inhibitors now approved in kidney cancer.

Role
Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine; HHMI Investigator
Specialisms
VHL and HIF biologyKidney cancerOxygen sensing

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