Awarded AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research (2015).
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Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. Capecchi is Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School…
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science · Italian-American molecular geneticist (born 1937) · geneticist · inventor · university teacher · biophysicist · also Mario Capecchi, Mario Renato Capecchi, Mario Ramberg Capecchi, Mario R. Capecchi, Capecchi
Born 6 October 1937 · Q215574
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Awarded AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research (2015).
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– Mike Hogg Award, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.
Awarded Gabbay Award (2007).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2006).
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Awarded March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology (2005).
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Awarded John Scott Award (2002).
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Awarded Massry Prize (2002).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Medicine (2002).
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Awarded Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2001).
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Won National Medal of Science (2001).
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Won Franklin Medal (1997).
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Awarded Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1996).
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Awarded Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize (1994).
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Awarded Canada Gairdner International Award (1993).
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Awarded Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research (1992).
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Joined the faculty at the University of Utah
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Became an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School
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From Harvard University, with his doctoral thesis completed under the tutelage of Watson
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And his mother were living near Bolzano, about 160 miles north of his father in Reggio Emilia when his mother was arrested and deported for pamphleteering and belonging to an anti-Fascist group
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Born 1937-10-06.
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