Swee Lay Thein MD, DSc., FMedSci
Senior Investigator, Sickle Cell Branch, NHLBI, NIH
Chief of NHLBI's Sickle Cell Branch. Identified the BCL11A gene as a key repressor of gamma-globin gene, a finding that resuscitated the field in fetal hemoglobin regulation Did key studies of pyruvate kinase activators 2024 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine