01/17/08

    Jean D. Wilson, a native of Wellington, Texas, holds the Charles Cameron Sprague Distinguished Chair of Biomedical Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is a reproductive biologist whose work is focused on the mechanisms of hormone action and, in particular, on the role of hormone action in sexual differentiation.

    Dr. Wilson obtained a bachelors degree in chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. After a residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, he was a research fellow in biochemistry under Sidney Udenfriend at the National Institutes of Health. In 1960, he joined the faculty of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern, where he also served as Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program. He has been editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and of Williams' Textbook of Endocrinology and is a former editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

    He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. He is also a Member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has served as President of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Endocrine Society and is a recipient of the Oppenheimer and Koch Awards of the Endocrine Society, the Sir Henry Dale Medal of the Society for Endocrinology, the Gregory Pincus Award of the Worcester Foundation, the Amory Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians.