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“The Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2019 was awarded for the discovery of how mammalian cells sense oxygen,” said William Kim, MD, the Rush S. Dickson Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UNC School of Medicine and co-leader of the UNC Lineberger Cancer Genetics Research Program. “One of the key components of this oxygen sensing pathway is the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene, which is mutated in approximately 90% of kidney cancers. This deep understanding of kidney cancer biology has led to several important therapeutic advances in recent years.”
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