Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young win Nobel Prize in Medicine for circadian rhythm

New Delhi: The winner of the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2017 have been declared.

The coveted award has been conferred jointly upon Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for the discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

Jeffrey C. Hall was born in 1945 in New York, USA. He received his doctoral degree in 1971 at the University of Washington in Seattle and was a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena from 1971 to 1973. He joined the faculty at Brandeis University in Waltham in 1974. In 2002, he became associated with University of Maine.

Michael Rosbash was born in 1944 in Kansas City, USA. He received his doctoral degree in 1970 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. During the following three years, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Since 1974, he has been on faculty at Brandeis University in Waltham, USA.

Michael W. Young was born in 1949 in Miami, USA. He received his doctoral degree at the University of Texas in Austin in 1975. Between 1975 and 1977, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto. From 1978, he has been on faculty at the Rockefeller University in New York.

Last year, the prestigious award went to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.