찰스 브렌턴 허긴스

소개

찰스 브렌턴 허긴스(영어: Charles Brenton Huggins, 1901년 9월 22일 ~ 1997년 1월 12일)는 캐나다 태생의 미국의 생리학자, 의학자이다. 하버드 대학교를 졸업하고, 1927년 시카고 대학교 강사, 1936년에 교수를 거쳐 1951년 시카고 대학교 벤메이 암 연구소 소장이 되었다. 미국뿐만 아니라 영국·독일로부터 많은 의학상을 받았다. 1966년 전립선암의 호르몬 요법 연구로 노벨 생리학·의학상을 받았다.

Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school. He was one of the founding staff members of the University of Chicago Medical School, where he remained for the duration of his professional research career. Huggins's work on how sex hormones influence prostate function ultimately led to his discovery of hormone therapies to treat prostate cancer. For this finding, he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his work on prostate cancer, Huggins explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, developed an animal model for breast cancer, and developed chromogenic substrates that are widely used for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued to perform research into his 90s; he died in Chicago in 1997.