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William (Bill) G. Kaelin Jr. is a professor of medicine at Harvard University. Kaelin is a 2016 recipient of the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. He also has won the 2016 ASCO Science of Oncology Award, and 2016 AACR Princess Takamatsu Award. His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins.
He became Assistant Director of Basic Science at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in 2008. His research at Dana-Farber has focused on understanding the role of mutations in tumor suppressor genes in cancer development. His major work has been on the retinoblastoma, von Hippel-Lindau, and p53 tumor suppressor genes.
His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, American Cancer Society, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and others.