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Craig Mello

American biologist · United States · Doctors · Born 1960 · age 66

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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.

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2006Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical ResearchAwardNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineAwardPaul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter PrizeAward2005Canada Gairdner International AwardAwardMassry PrizeAward2004Rosenstiel AwardAward2003NAS Award in Molecular BiologyAward1960Born18 October 1960

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2006
Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize2006
Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research2006
Canada Gairdner International Award2005
Massry Prize2005
Rosenstiel Award2004
NAS Award in Molecular Biology2003

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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 Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.

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United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
living
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Born 1960 · age 66

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