Svetlana Mojsov is a Yugoslav-born Macedonian American chemist who is a research associate professor at Rockefeller University.
13 Facts About Svetlana Mojsov
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Svetlana Mojsov discovered the glucagon-like peptide-1 and uncovered its role in glucose metabolism and the secretion of insulin.
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Svetlana Mojsov joined the graduate program at the Rockefeller University in 1972, where she worked alongside Robert Bruce Merrifield on the synthesis of peptides.
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Specifically, Svetlana Mojsov focused on the synthesis of glucagon, a hormone which is released by the pancreas.
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Svetlana Mojsov arrived at MGH shortly after Joel Habener had cloned proglucagon by studying anglerfish found in Boston Harbor.
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Svetlana Mojsov worked on the identification of glucagon-like peptide-1, a hormone generated by the gut that triggers the release of insulin.
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Specifically, Svetlana Mojsov identified that a stretch of 31 amino acids in the GLP-1 was an incretin.
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Together with Gordon Weir at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and Habener, Svetlana Mojsov showed that small quantities of lab-synthesized GLP-1 could trigger insulin.
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In 1992, the group at Massachusetts General Hospital using GLP-1 synthesized by Svetlana Mojsov tested the GLP-1 in humans.
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Svetlana Mojsov fought to have her name included in patents, with MGH eventually agreeing to amend four patents to include her name and she received her one-third of drug royalties for one year.
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Svetlana Mojsov has continued to speak up for credit after her collaborators received various awards as new versions of GLP-1 have been approved and grown popular.
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Svetlana Mojsov's father was the politician and diplomat Lazar Mojsov.
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At graduate school Mojsov met her future husband, Michel C Nussenzweig.