Location:
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Post Date:
Oct 8, 2007 2:08 PM
TAG ID:
upiphotos810415
(RM)
Credit:
DIRK DOUGLASS/UPI/Newscom
Format:
2143 x 3000 Color JPEG
Photographer:
DIRK DOUGLASS
Keywords:
NEWS
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a co-recipient of this year�s Nobel Prize in medicine, awarded August 8, 2007. Smithies shares the award with American Mario R. Capecchi and Briton Martin J. Evans for developing a gene-targeting technique in mice. (UPI Photo/Dirk Douglass/University of Utah)