The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's sponsored research funding rose to $610.7 million in Fiscal Year 2007, up from $593.3 million in 2006. More detailed information is here.
(Source: Office of Sponsored Research. Updated: 07/2007.)
Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. 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, shared the 2007 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-Chapel Hill faculty member for 19 years, containing 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. Smithies
is the first full-time Carolina faculty member to win a Nobel Prize.
(Source: UNC News Services. Updated: 05/2008.)
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