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Oct. 10, 2007
Carolina in the News
Local, national and international coverage of Oliver Smithies' Nobel Prize continued for a third day.
A sampling of the coverage to date includes the following:
Nobel Laureate (Editorial)
The Winston-Salem Journal
Smithies’ work and his winning of the Nobel Prize bring new prestige to the University of North Carolina, and that is something about which all North Carolinians can be proud. He came here 18 years ago and is clearly one of the stars in this state’s growing cadre of renowned scientists.
A Nobel calling (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
Medical researcher Oliver Smithies, 82, a professor at UNC Chapel Hill, will share the Nobel in medicine with Mario Capechi of the University of Utah and Sir Martin Evans of Cardiff University in Wales. Each, working independently, made discoveries in genetics that has led to important studies of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
UNC researcher joins an elite club (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
On Monday, Oliver Smithies, a researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, learned that he would join that group. Smithies, 82, was honored along with two other scientists -- Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah and Sir Martin Evans of Cardiff University in the United Kingdom -- for their groundbreaking work in using mice to identify the relationship between genes and disease.
One of ours receives the ultimate honor
The Chapel Hill Herald
That's not just because he has spent nearly 20 years here, working from his laboratory in the UNC medical complex and helping to change the future of medicine. It's not because the work, based on manipulating genes and creating "designer" mice, may provide significant help in the treatment of a myriad of human diseases, including cystic fibrosis and cancer.
Welcome, Dr. Smithies
The News & Observer (Under the Dome)
When Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize in medicine this week, he fondly remembered another award he received in 1993, five years after he moved to this state. The scientist has a long list of honors to his name, but the North Carolina Award -- the highest honor the state can bestow -- was especially meaningful, Smithies told admirers at a celebration in Chapel Hill.
German Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The New York Times
The Nobel prizes are being announced this week. On Monday, the prize that recognizes achievement in “physiology or medicine” went to Mario R. Capecchi, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin J. Evans of Cardiff University in Wales, for their work that led to the technique of manipulating the genes of mice.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine: 3 Giant Leaps For Mankind
Inventor Spot
The 2007 Nobel winners, Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah; Oliver Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina; and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales - worked independently, but their research overlapped greatly. Many other geneticists contributed to the state of the art, but the discoveries of Capecchi, Smithies, and Evans are considered watershed.
Dream come true for Nobel Prize winner
icWales
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine – jointly with colleagues Mario Cappechi, from the University of Utah, and Oliver Smithies, from the University of North Carolina – for his work investigating how such cells can be removed from mammals and then grown in the laboratory to help treat disease.
Nobel in medicine awarded to three for "knockout" mice
Kazinform (Kazakhstan)
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Smithies has created mouse models for inherited illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and heart and blood disease.
UNC scientist wins Nobel (Opinion)
The Chapel Hill News
A UNC-CH faculty member for 19 years, Smithies began his work at the University of Wisconsin in the 1980s. The three scientists worked independently but shared information. Gene-targeting allowed the researchers to use "knock-out mice," in which genes were removed to understand their effects. The first mouse with manipulated genes was born in 1989, and since then, more than 10,000 genes in mice have been studied using the technique, the Nobel citation said.
Roses & Raspberries (Opinion)
The Chapel Hill News
ROSES to Oliver Smithies, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UNC.
UNC prof receives Nobel for genetics
The Duke Chronicle
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher Oliver Smithies was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for medicine Monday.
Here is a sampling of other links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National CoverageMigraine Drug May Treat Alcoholism, Too
ABC News
"The regulatory requirements and documentation are very time consuming," says Dr. James Garbutt, a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "The detail is mind-boggling, and it costs a fortune, many millions of dollars, to prove and confirm the data, compile it and present it to the FDA."
Regional Coverage
Stored blood less effective
The Kansas City Star
The reasons that patients who get transfusions do worse “aren’t well understood,” said Mark Brecher, director of transfusion medicine at University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Still, he thinks the Duke researchers have opened an intriguing new area of research.
State & Local Coverage
Friday Center offers a range of educational programs (Column)
The Chapel Hill News
UNC's Friday Center for Continuing Education offers all sorts of programs for lifelong learners. The main areas of the Friday Center's operation are credit programs for part-time students, professional development and enrichment programs, and management of the continuing education conference center.
Prize-winning poet to read on campus
The Chapel Hill News
Poet Gregory Orr will read from his works on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in Donovan Lounge of Greenlaw Hall on the UNC campus.
Wilson prosecutor accused of basing slaying case on race
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC-Chapel Hill law professor who works with the university's innocence project sharply criticized Tuesday a Wilson prosecutor's handling of a rape and murder case and called on lawyers statewide to help lobby for changes in ethics rules governing prosecutors.
Issues & Trends
Hearing today to address future of UNC
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC panel trying to figure out how to meet the state's needs for highly educated workers will come to Raleigh today to hear the public's views.
Entegrion Receives $2M Appropriation for Blood Coagulation Technology
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Entegrion, a spinout from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has secured a $2 million appropriation from Congress for continued development of its blood coagulation technology.
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