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October 6, 2020 | Suzanne Pollak

NIH Scientist Wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Dr. Harvey Alter, a National Institutes of Health intramural researcher, was one of three people to win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Alter, a senior scholar at the NIH Clinical Center’s Department of Transfusion Medicine in Bethesda, shared the prize with […]

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October 7, 2015 | Aline Barros

2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to NIH Grantees

National Institute of Health (NIH) grantees received the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Paul Modrich, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Duke University School of Medicine, and Aziz Sancar, of the University of North Carolina, received the award for their work on “mapping, at a molecular level, how cells repair damaged DNA and safeguard the […]

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