Media Mentions

Three NIGMS grantees—Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath—will share the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry for solving the structure of the protein-making ribosome.

Long-time NIGMS grantees Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak receive 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their “curiosity-driven research” on telomeres and telomerase.

Three scientists who have received support from NIGMS are recognized with the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on green fluorescent protein.

Letter to the Editor of Time magazine from NIGMS Directory Jeremy M. Berg on NIH's long history of support to Mario Capecchi and other Nobel Prize winners.

NIGMS grantee Roger D. Kornberg wins the Nobel Prize for revealing the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process of copying DNA into RNA.

NIGMS grantees Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello receive the Nobel Prize for their discovery of RNA interference.