The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

"for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"



1/3 of the prize
Mario R. Capecchi USA
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
b. 1937
(in Italy)





Sir Martin J. Evans
1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom
Cardiff University
Cardiff, United Kingdom
b. 1941





Oliver Smithies
1/3 of the prize
USA
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
b. 1925
(in United Kingdom)