Nobel Prize scientist to speak at Pitt

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Nobel Prize scientist to speak at Pitt

The Tribune-Review | Tuesday, October 9, 2007 4:00 a.m.

Mario R. Capecchi, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, will be speaking at the University of Pittsburgh's 7th annual celebration of science later this week. Capecchi, 70, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Utah, shared the prestigious $1.54 million award with Martin Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in England, and Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for their work pioneering the creation of "designer mice" to demonstrate the roles of different genes in human development and disease. Science2007 is a two-day showcase of research that kicks off on Thursday, with most sessions in Alumni Hall on Pitt's Oakland campus. It is free and open to the public. Capecchi will be speaking on Friday at 11 a.m. about his work modeling human diseases in mice. For more information, visit www.science2007.pitt.edu .

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