Craig C. Mello is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference.
The research for which he shared the Nobel Prize was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. In justifying the award, the Karolinska Institute emphasized that "this year's Nobel laureates have discovered a fundamental mechanism for controlling the flow of genetic information."
At WUM he will give a lecture titled „RNAi: Ancient Mechanism, New Medicines".
The lecture is open to all interested, but please register. We invite students, graduate students, teaching and research staff, and anyone interested to meet a star of world science.
Lecture and Q&A session in English.