NEWS

May 2008

Our Scientific Advisory Committee has selected the 2008 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars

Congratulations to:

E. Alejandro Sweet-Cordero - Stanford University Medical School
Emmanuelle A. Passegue - University of California, San Francisco
Ian J. Davis - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Chang - MIT Center for Cancer Research
Aaron D. Gitler - University of Pennsylvania
Ming Li - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Steven J. Altschuler - University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

October 2, 2006

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Z. Fire has been awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello for their discovery of “RNA interference – gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.”

Andrew Z. Fire was a Rita Allen Foundation Scholar from 1989 until 1993. He is currently a professor of genetics and pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

We are very proud of Dr. Fire.

This is wonderful news!