American Andrew Z. Fire shares Nobel Prize for discov...( Hay Whitney Fellowship to conduct rese...)

In 1986 Fire was appointed a staff associate at Carnegie's Department of Embryology, ordinarily a nonrenewable junior faculty position. However, Fire's research progress was so significant in three years that he was promoted to the position of staff member. Staff members at the department automatically receive an unpaid part-time position in the Department of Biology at the Johns Hopkins University. Fire joined the faculty of Stanford University last November, but maintains strong ties with Carnegie as a Carnegie Investigator.

In 1989 Fire was awarded the Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award, a grant to young investigators. Since the discovery of RNAi, Fire has received numerous awards including the 1997 Maryland Distinguished Young Scientist Award, the 2002 Meyenburg Prize from the German Cancer Research Center, the 2002 Genetics Society of America Medal, the 2003 Passano Award, the 2003 Wiley Prize, the 2003 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, and now the Nobel Prize.

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