Michael W. Young

American geneticist, chronobiologist

Michael Warren Young (born March 28, 1949) is an American biologist and geneticist. He has worked over three decades to research studying genetically controlled patterns of sleep and wakefulness within Drosophila melanogaster. He worked at Rockefeller University.

Michael W. Young
Michael W. Young in Nobel Prize press conference in Stockholm, December 2017
Born
Michael Warren Young

(1949-03-28) March 28, 1949 (age 75)
Miami, Florida, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Texas, Austin (B.A., PhD[1])
Known forCircadian rhythms
AwardsNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsChronobiology
Biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Stanford University School of Medicine
Rockefeller University
Doctoral advisorBurke Judd
Doctoral studentsLeslie B. Vosshall

Young is known for the discovery of the timeless and doubletime genes, which makes proteins that are also necessary for circadian rhythm. He was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Jeffrey C. Hall and Michael Rosbash "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".[2][3]

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