The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
Awarded on: 2006-10-02
"for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University School of Medicine – Stanford, CA, USA
Andrew Z. Fire
Born: 1959-04-27 in Stanford, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American biologist and professor of pathology and genetics
Biography
Andrew Zachary Fire is an American biologist and professor of pathology and of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Craig C. Mello, for the discovery of RNA interference (RNAi). This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998.