Alfred G. Gilman

Alfred Goodman Gilman (July 1, 1941 – December 23, 2015) was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Martin Rodbell for their discovery of G-proteins and elucidation of their function as signal transducers and amplifiers of messages from hormones and neurotransmitters to intracellular targets.

His family is Jewish.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, to pharmacologist Alfred Gilman Sr., co-author of the influential textbook Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Gilman earned a B.S. in biochemistry summa cum laude from Yale University in 1962 and M.D./Ph.D. degrees in pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University in 1969.30056-3) After postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health, he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1971 as an assistant professor, advancing to full professor by 1979, before moving to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1981.