{"id":2215,"date":"2018-03-06T16:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/smithies-nobel-symposium\/?page_id=2215"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:02:02","slug":"previous-nobel-laureates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/smithies-nobel-symposium\/previous-nobel-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Smithie Symposium Nobel Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"

1st Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Thomas Steitz, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor studies of the structure and function of the ribosome\u201d<\/p>\n

2nd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Thomas Cech, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA\u201d<\/p>\n

3rd Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Harold Varmus, MD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes\u201d<\/p>\n

4th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Martin Chalfie, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP\u201d<\/p>\n

5th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Randy Scheckman, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells\u201d<\/p>\n

6th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Brian Kobilka, MD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor studies of G-protein-coupled receptors\u201d<\/p>\n

7th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Mario Capecchi, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells\u201d<\/p>\n

8th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
George Smith, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor the phage display of peptides and antibodies\u201d<\/p>\n

9th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
William Moerner, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy\u201d<\/p>\n

10th Annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Lecture<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Jennifer Doudna, PhD<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n

2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
\n<\/strong>Prize motivation: \u201cfor the development of a method for genome editing\u201d<\/p>\n

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