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NIGMS Grantees Recognized with Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 8, 2008 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Three NIGMS grantees are honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry for their groundbreaking work on green fluorescent protein.

NIH Grantees Win 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Developing Techniques to Target Specific Genes in Mice
October 9, 2007 • National Institutes of Health

Statement from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni on Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.

Oliver Smithies Wins 2007 Nobel Prize
October 8, 2007 • University of North Carolina

NIGMS grantee Oliver Smithies shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work on gene targeting.

NIGMS Grantees Win Nobel Prize for Gene Targeting
October 8, 2007 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Statement from NIGMS Director Jeremy M. Berg on Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. 

NIGMS Grantees Win Nobel for Gene Targeting
October 8, 2007 • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three scientists, including NIGMS grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."

Mario R. Capecchi Wins 2007 Nobel Prize
October 8, 2007 • University of Utah

NIGMS grantee Mario R. Capecchi shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work on gene targeting.

NIGMS Grantee Wins Chemistry Nobel for Gene Copying Mechanism
October 4, 2006 • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to NIGMS grantee Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."

Nobel in Chemistry Goes to Long-Time NIGMS Grantee
October 4, 2006 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Long-time NIGMS grantee Roger Kornberg won the chemistry prize for revealing the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process of copying DNA into RNA.

NIGMS Grantees Garner Nobel for Gene Silencing Discovery
October 2, 2006 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the physiology or medicine prize for their discovery of RNA interference, a mechanism of gene silencing.

Andrew Fire wins 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
October 2, 2006 • Stanford School of Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 has been awarded to longtime NIGMS grantees Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discoveries related to RNA interference.

American Andrew Z. Fire Shares Nobel Prize for Discovering RNAi
October 2, 2006 • The Carnegie Institution

NIGMS grantees Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Press Release
October 2, 2006 • The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to NIGMS grantees Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of "RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA."

UMass Medical School Professor Wins Nobel Prize
October 2, 2006 • University of Massachusetts Medical School

Craig Mello and his colleague Andrew Fire, both long-time NIGMS grantees, have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

NIGMS Grantees Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
October 5, 2005 • National Institutes of Health

The 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry is shared by two long-time NIGMS grantees, Robert H. Grubbs of Caltech and Richard R. Schrock of MIT. The two researchers are honored for developing metal-containing molecules that are now used daily in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to make important compounds.

National Institutes of Health Grantees Win 2003 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
October 8, 2003 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIH Grantee Wins 2003 Nobel Prize for MRI Research
October 6, 2003 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIGMS Grantee John Fenn Wins Nobel Prize for Refining Mass Spectrometry Technique to Analyze Large Molecules
October 9, 2002 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIH Grantee H. Robert Horvitz Wins Nobel Prize for Deciphering Cell Death Genes
October 7, 2002 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIGMS Grantee K. Barry Sharpless Wins Nobel Prize for Advances in Mirror-Image Chemistry
October 10, 2001 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIH Grantee Leland Hartwell Wins Nobel Prize for Breakthroughs in Understanding the Cell Cycle
October 8, 2001 • National Institute of General Medical Sciences

 
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