Craig Mello

Craig Cameron Mello
Mello in 2014
Born (1960-10-18) October 18, 1960 (age 64)
Alma materBrown University (BS)
Harvard University (PhD)
Known forRNA interference
AwardsWiley Prize (2003)
NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2003)
Massry Prize (2005)
Gairdner Foundation International Award (2005)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsBiologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Medical School
Academic advisorsNelson Fausto
Susan Gerbi
Ken Miller
Frank Rothman
Victor Ambros
Daniel Stinchcomb

Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z. Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference. This research was conducted at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and published in 1998. Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.[1]

  1. ^ "Craig C. Mello, Ph.D." Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2007-12-31.