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• Mario R. Capecchi Wins Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine-

  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.
  The announcement was made this morning by the Nobel Assembly at the
  Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. The prize recognizes
  Capecchi's pioneering work on "knockout mice" technology, a
  gene-targeting technique that has revolutionized mammalian biology and
  allowed the creation of animal models for hundreds of human diseases,
  including modeling cancer in the mouse.
  "This is a tremendous honor for our University, for our Department of
  Human Genetics, and, specifically, for all the members of my
  laboratory, past and present," said Capecchi upon receiving