Professor
Qais Al-Awqati
Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Physician; Physiologist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Medical Sciences
Elected
2005
Discovered the vacuolar proton-ATPase. Showed that this ATPase and a chloride-channel constituted the mechanism for cell compartment acidification, which is crucial for endocytosis, loading of exocytotic vesicles, protein trafficking, lysosomal degradation, bone remodeling, and cellular invasion by viruses and toxins.
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