Jeffrey Friedman discusses research on leptin and obesity @RockefellerUniv

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Jeffrey Friedman, winner of this year's Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine and Keio Medical Science Prize, discusses his nearly three decades of research on obesity. Dr. Friedman discovered leptin, a hormone that regulates food intake and energy expenditure.

Jeffrey M. Friedman's Bio: http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/JeffreyFriedman/

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Jeffrey Friedman discusses research on leptin and obesity

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