Pew Biomedical Scholars have won top science awards this fall. Craig C. Mello, Ph.D., of the University of Massachusetts and a 1995 Scholar, is a co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. And Carol W. Greider, Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins University, a 1990 Scholar, shares the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Read the story, "A Community of Beautiful Minds," on these scientists’ work and the 20th anniversary of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences in the summer 2007 issue of Trust.
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Two Pew Biomedical Scholars have won top science awards this fall.
- Date added:
- Oct 16, 2006
- Project:
- Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Topic:
- Biomedical Research
- Related Expert:
- Anita Pepper
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