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U Scientist Mario Capecchi wins 2007 Nobel Prize

Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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The Program in Molecular Biology at the University of Utah provides an exceptionally strong graduate training environment.  For a fuller description of all that we have to offer, please see our Program of Study.  You might also want to visit our "Top Ten List", browse through our faculty research interests, and/or view a short list of faculty research highlights.  The application form for The Program in Molecular Biology can be downloaded and applying to the Program is free.  We hope you will consider joining our research community and we look forward to hearing from you.

Other Program News

We are proud to announce that Katie Ullman, a Molecular Biology faculty member, was selected as the Bridges Faculty Mentor of the Year in 2004.   For more details click here or for a PDF of the meeting report click here.

In addition, two Molecular Biology Program faculty members have been selected as new investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Erik Jorgensen and Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado will join 41 other new appointees as "the nation's most promising biomedical scientists." For a full story, see http://www.hhmi.org/news/032105.html.