Craig C. Mello

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006

University of Massachusetts - Medical School

“for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA”

Craig C. Mello is an American molecular biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2006 for the discovery of RNA interference, a mechanism of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.

Field

Biology · Molecular Biology

Lifespan

1960–