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Also known as Mario Renato Capecchi, Mario Ramberg Capecchi, Mario R. Capecchi

molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate

OverviewAI-generated

Mario Ramberg Capecchi is a male person from Italy. He was born on October 6, 1937. His professional output includes the work "On the mechanism of suppression and polypeptide chain initiation." According to available records, he has five works associated with him.

Capecchi has received recognition from several institutions. He is included in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Medicine collection. He has been awarded one Nobel Prize. Additionally, his profile is referenced by 764 other encyclopedia articles.

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  • On the mechanism of suppression and polypeptide chain initiation

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1923-11-06
Active to
1998-06-30

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine2007

    for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells

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Encyclopedic overview

Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born October 6, 1937) is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Life

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