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Ronald M. Evans

1949 - Today

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Ronald Mark Evans (born April 17, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Biologist, Professor and Head of the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory, and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Dr. Ronald M. Evans is known for his original discoveries of nuclear hormone receptors (NR), a special class of transcriptional factor, and the elucidation of their universal mechanism of action, a process that governs how lipophilic hormones and drugs regulate virtually every developmental and metabolic pathway in animals and humans. Nowadays, NRs are among the most widely investigated group of pharmaceutical targets in the world, already yielding benefits in drug discovery for cancer, muscular dystrophies, osteoporosis, type II diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald M. Evans is the 1,058th most popular biologist, the 13,531st most popular biography from United States and the 176th most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Ronald M. Evans ranks 1,058 out of 1,097. Before him are George Don, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Annie Montague Alexander, Philip J. Currie, Storrs L. Olson, and Suzanne Cory. After him are Frederic Moore, Eugenie Clark, Edward Bagnall Poulton, Neil Shubin, Susan Lindquist, and Frederick DuCane Godman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ronald M. Evans ranks 760. Before him are Hans Lutz, Bruce Fairbairn, Walter Browne, Philip J. Currie, Junior Murvin, and Joyce DeWitt. After him are Frank L. Culbertson Jr., Jenny Lamy, Susan Lindquist, Ahmed Patel, Sherman Howard, and Pat Condell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ronald M. Evans ranks 13,531 out of 20,380. Before him are Stephen Marley (1972), Jane Randolph (1914), Kevin A. Ford (1960), Kristen Schaal (1978), Irene Worth (1916), and Margaret Cho (1968). After him are Frank L. Culbertson Jr. (1949), Taylor Negron (1957), Jerry Butler (1939), Jimmy Douglas (1898), Michelle Williams (1979), and Eric Peterson (1964).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Ronald M. Evans ranks 176. Before him are Charles B. Cory (1857), Rita R. Colwell (1934), Joanne Chory (1955), Patricia Goldman-Rakic (1937), Annie Montague Alexander (1867), and Storrs L. Olson (1944). After him are Eugenie Clark (1922), Neil Shubin (1960), Susan Lindquist (1949), Joan A. Steitz (1941), Albert William Herre (1868), and Stephen Schneider (1945).

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