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Nobel Prize Recipient Dr. Oliver Smithies
Students interested in science will be inspired by the news that Dr. Oliver Smithies, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Dr. Smithies, along with Mario R. Capecchi of the University of Utah's Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Sir Martin J. Evans of the United Kingdom, will share this year's Nobel Prize for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.
The achievement marks the pinnacle of a scientific career for Smithies, a UNC faculty member for 19 years, including numerous honors and two major innovations that have fundamentally changed the science of genetic medicine and laid the foundation for today's research into gene therapy.
Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
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