3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Manipulation
Two Americans and a Briton were awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine today for developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.
The winners, who will share the $1.54 million prize, are Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales.
Certainly a well deserved prize.
The University of Utah (my current employer, as it turns out) put up a special web page devoted to Capecchi and his work; check it out, if you’re interested.