Michael R. Lerner Explained
Michael Rush Lerner is a dermatologist in San Diego, California.[1]
Lerner was born in Portland, Oregon.
He discovered snRNPs with Joan A. Steitz,[2] STEP (with Paul Lombroso), created the melanophore based GPCR bioassay and demonstrated that Smoothened is a GPCR.[2]
Notes and References
- Web site: Dr. Michael Lerner, Dermatologist in San Diego, CA | US News Doctors . health.usnews.com . 2015 . 22 November 2015.
- Lerner MR, Steitz JA . Antibodies to small nuclear RNAs complexed with proteins are produced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 76 . 11 . 5495–9 . November 1979 . 316537 . 411675 . 10.1073/pnas.76.11.5495 . 1979PNAS...76.5495R . free .