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Andrew Z. Fire

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Andrew Z. Fire
Full Name
of the recipient
Andrew Z. Fire
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award2006
Share in Award50.0%
Award Shared withCraig C. Mello (50.0%)
Motivation
for the Award
for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA
Affiliation
at the Time of Award
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Place of BirthStanford, CA, United States USA
Date of Birth27 April 1959
Age
at the time of Award
46 years
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