Michael R. Lerner

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Michael Rush Lerner is a dermatologist in San Diego, California.^[1]

Lerner was born in Portland, Oregon.^{[citation needed]}

He discovered snRNPs with Joan A. Steitz,^[2] STEP (with Paul Lombroso), created the melanophore based GPCR bioassay and demonstrated that Smoothened is a GPCR.^[2]