Mario Capecchi
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Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born 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.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies.[7] He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.[8][9][10][11][12]
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Born | Mario Ramberg Capecchi (1937-10-06) October 6, 1937 (age 86) Verona, Italy |
Nationality | Italian, American |
Alma mater | Antioch College Harvard University |
Known for | Hox genes in knockout mice |
Awards | Kyoto Prize (1996) Franklin Medal (1997) Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (2001) Massry Prize (2002) Wolf Prize in Medicine (2002) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics |
Institutions | Harvard Medical School University of Utah |
Thesis | On the Mechanism of Suppression and Polypeptide Chain Initiation (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | James D. Watson |
Website | capecchi |
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