Andrew Fire - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2006
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Andrew Fire

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2006
for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Together with: Craig Mello
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
4/27/1959
place of birth
Palo Alto
Age
67 years
member of
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
field of work
  • genetics
  • pathology
occupation
  • physicist
  • biologist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • academic
  • pathologist
  • physician
educated at
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Stanford University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Fremont High School
employer
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Stanford University
work location
  • Stanford
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