Albert Lasker
Basic Medical Research Award

Key Publications of Jeffrey Friedman
Friedman, J.M., Leibel, R.L., and Bahary, N. (1991). Molecular mapping of obesity genes. Mammalian Genome. 1, 130-144.

Zhang, Y., Proenca, R., Maffei, M., Barone, M., Leopold, L., and Friedman, J.M. (1994). Positional cloning of the mouse obese gene and its human homologue. Nature. 372, 425-432.

Halaas, J.L., Gajiwala, K.S., Maffei, M., Cohen, S.L., Chait, B.T., Rabinowitz, D., Lallone, R.L., Burley, S.K., and Friedman, J.M. (1995). Weight-reducing effects of the plasma protein encoded by the obese gene. Science. 269, 543-546.

Lee, G.-H., Proenca, R., Montez, J.M., Carroll, K.M., Darvishzadeh, J.G., Lee, J.I., and Friedman, J.M. (1996). Abnormal splicing of the leptin receptor in diabetic mice. Nature. 379, 632-635.

DeFalco, J., Tomishima, M., Liu, H., Zho, C., Cai, X., Marth, J.D., Enquist, L., and Friedman, J.M. (2001). Virus-assisted mapping of neural inputs to a feeding center in the hypothalamus. Science. 291, 2608-2613.

Friedman, J.M. (2009). Leptin at 14 y of age: an ongoing story. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 89, 973S-979S.