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Mario Capecchi

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Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

United StatesScientistsBorn 1937 · age 88
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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.

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2015AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research
2007Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2007Gabbay Award
2006Clarivate Citation Laureates
2005March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
2002Wolf Prize in Medicine
2002Massry Prize
2002John Scott Award
2001Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
2001National Medal of Science
1997Franklin Medal
1996Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences
1994Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
1993Canada Gairdner International Award
1992Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Neuroscience Research
Honorary doctorate from university of Florence
Kyoto Prize

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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. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

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United States
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Scientist
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living
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Born 1937 · age 88
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