Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.
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Craig Mello
Craig Cameron Mello is an American biologist and professor in the RNA Therapeutics Institute and Program for Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of…
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science · American biologist (b.1960) · biochemist · physician · university teacher · also Craig Mello, Craig Cameron Mello, Craig C. Mello, Craig C Mello, Mello
Born 18 October 1960 · Q206455
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2006· 6 entries
In Ashburn, Virginia, Mello recounted the phone call that he received announcing that he had won the prize
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006).
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Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (2006).
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Awarded Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research (2006).
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Mello and Fire received the Nobel Prize for work that began in 1998, when Mello and Fire along with their colleagues (SiQun Xu, Mary Montgomery, Stephen Kostas, and Sam Driver) published a paper in the journal Nature de
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Massry Prize (2005).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (2005).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Rosenstiel Award (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2003).
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans” in Nature — cited 12,394 times.
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-10-18.
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