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Gregg L. Semenza

1956 - Today

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Gregg Leonard Semenza (born July 12, 1956) is an American pediatrician and Professor of Genetic Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the director of the vascular program at the Institute for Cell Engineering. He is a 2016 recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He is known for his discovery of HIF-1, which allows cancer cells to adapt to oxygen-poor environments. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregg L. Semenza is the 288th most popular physician (up from 395th in 2019), the 2,756th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,686th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Physician. Learn more about Gregg L. Semenza's academic impact at Rankless.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Gregg L. Semenza ranks 288 out of 726. Before him are Guillaume Dupuytren, Neferkare Neby, Irmfried Eberl, Norman Bethune, Ali ibn Ridwan, and Sun Simiao. After him are William Gull, James Barry, Pierre Fauchard, Dean Mahomed, Herman Snellen, and Leonid Kulik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Gregg L. Semenza ranks 91. Before him are Roderick MacKinnon, Luis Guzmán, Krystian Zimerman, Val Valentino, Sinbad, and Jean-Pierre Thiollet. After him are Maggie Reilly, Thomas N'Kono, Mikuláš Dzurinda, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, King Diamond, and Mansour Bahrami.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregg L. Semenza ranks 2,756 out of 20,380. Before him are Ray Price (1926), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Phil Murphy (1957), Brian Kemp (1963), Wilma Rudolph (1940), and Richard Pryor (1940). After him are Elizabeth Peña (1959), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Claude Akins (1926), Paul Sorvino (1939), and Robert Plutchik (1927).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United States

Among physicians born in United States, Gregg L. Semenza ranks 38. Before him are Louis Ignarro (1941), Robin Cook (1940), Robert Atkins (1930), John O'Keefe (1939), Joseph Erlanger (1874), and John Harvey Kellogg (1852). After him are Henry Heimlich (1920), Mehmet Oz (1960), Fernando J. Corbató (1926), Horace Wells (1815), James Curtis Hepburn (1815), and Thomas Horsfield (1773).

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