Which of the great minds behind the breakthrough cancer drug Avastin should win the Nobel Prize in Medicine?
Phillip Sharp , also of MIT, cofounded Biogen (nasdaq: BGEN - news - people ) and then went on to win the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1993.
The genetic approach to reprogramming, pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in medicine for his work, allows human cells to be transformed back into an embryonic-like, pluripotent state.
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Ironically, the study of FH patients led to the development of Lipitor and Zocor and won the researchers who did the work, Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, the 1985 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to two researchers who discovered a new kind of gene, upending dogma about how biology works and leading to a new technology that has been embraced by drug companies and has led to the formation of two publicly traded biotech firms.
Opponents of embryonic stem cell research, which involves destroying the donated embryos from which cell lines are derived, have long argued that the discovery of iPS cells in 2006 (for which Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine this past year) obviates the need for embryonic stem cell research.
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"Linda has made a wonderful set of contributions about the specificity of connections and the functional read-out both in the intermediate station and the cerebral cortex, " says Eric Kandel , a university professor at Columbia and senior investigator at HHMI, whose research into the brain earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000.
Crick was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins.
Sir Ronald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902 for discovering that malaria is spread by mosquitoes.
Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010 for his work in developing the technique.
In 2008 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with her former mentor, Luc Montagnier, for their discovery of HIV.
The scientist, who shares this year's Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for describing how one cell divides into two, had given his founder's stock to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he has been director since 1997.
While the panel onstage included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and billionaire investor Yuri Milner discussing awards greater in monetary value than the Nobel Prize for medicine, cameras in the crowd turned to focus on Brin and the device wrapped around his head.
Never mind that this technique, in 2003, was to win Mr Lauterbur a joint share in the Nobel prize for medicine.
The labs, which will accommodate 1, 000 students, were opened by Sir Paul, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2002.
And it was the enthusiasm of her mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, that drew Dr. Carol Greider to the groundbreaking work in genetics that would win both of them the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Crick, along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, was given the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
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