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An NIGMS-supported scientist is one of three honored with the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing more precise, efficient and environmentally friendly carbon-carbon bond-forming methods.

Three NIGMS grantees will share the 2009 Nobel Prize for their “studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.”

NIGMS grantee Thomas A. Steitz of Yale University is named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

NIGMS grantee Ada E. Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

NIGMS grantee Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, is named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine is awarded to three NIGMS grantees who solved a major problem in biology: how the chromosomes can be copied in a complete way during cell divisions and how they are protected against degradation. The winners are Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak.

Molecular biologist and NIGMS grantee Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Molecular biologist and NIGMS grantee Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Three NIGMS grantees will share the 2009 Nobel Prize for their discovery of "how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase."

Genetics professor and NIGMS grantee Jack Szostak named a recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Three NIGMS grantees are honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry for their groundbreaking work on green fluorescent protein.

Statement from NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni on Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies.

NIGMS grantee Oliver Smithies shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work on gene targeting.

Statement from NIGMS Director Jeremy M. Berg on Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies. 

NIGMS grantee Mario R. Capecchi shares the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for pioneering work on gene targeting.

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three scientists, including NIGMS grantees Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies, "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells."

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to NIGMS grantee Roger D. Kornberg "for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription."

Long-time NIGMS grantee Roger Kornberg won the chemistry prize for revealing the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process of copying DNA into RNA.

Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello won the physiology or medicine prize for their discovery of RNA interference, a mechanism of gene silencing.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2006 has been awarded to longtime NIGMS grantees Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for their discoveries related to RNA interference.

Craig Mello and his colleague Andrew Fire, both long-time NIGMS grantees, have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to NIGMS grantees Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of "RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA."

NIGMS grantees Andrew Fire and Craig Mello have been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of RNA interference.

The 2005 Nobel Prize in chemistry is shared by two long-time NIGMS grantees, Robert H. Grubbs of Caltech and Richard R. Schrock of MIT. The two researchers are honored for developing metal-containing molecules that are now used daily in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to make important compounds.