Previous Smithie Symposium Nobel Laureates
1st Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Thomas Steitz, PhD
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”
2nd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Thomas Cech, PhD
1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA”
3rd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Harold Varmus, MD
1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Prize motivation: “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes”
4th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Martin Chalfie, PhD
2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP”
5th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Randy Scheckman, PhD
2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells”
6th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Brian Kobilka, MD
2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors”
7th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Mario Capecchi, PhD
2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”
8th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
George Smith, PhD
2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”
9th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
William Moerner, PhD
2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”
10th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prize motivation: “for the development of a method for genome editing”
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