2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Shared by UC San Diego Researcher Roger Tsien

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University of California, San Diego Professor Roger Tsien, Ph.D., will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Boston University School of Medicine, and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York. The scientists are being honored for the discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) and seminal work to design and create fluorescent molecules that enter cells and light up their inner workings.

Announcing the prize in Stockholm, Sweden today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said: “This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewards the initial discovery of GFP and a series of important developments which have led to its use as a tagging tool in bioscience. By using DNA technology, researchers can now connect GFP to other interesting, but otherwise invisible, proteins. This glowing marker allows them to watch the movements, positions and interactions of the tagged proteins. More >

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Roger Tsien 2008 Nobel Prize Laureate for Chemistry Remarks	Roger Tsien Interview 1	Roger Tsien Interview 2
Marye Anne Fox UC San Diego Chancellor	Art Ellis Vice Chancellor for Research	David Brenner Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
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Education:	B.S., chemistry and physics, Harvard College Ph.D., physiology, University of Cambridge, England
Appointments:	Professor of Pharmacology, UC San Diego School of Medicine Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1989 - present)
Memberships:	National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine European Molecular Biology Organization
Awards:	Wolf Prize in Medicine Gairdner Foundation International Award American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Science Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Japan

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