UAB Synopsis, Vol. 27, No. 32, September 1, 2008
Phillip A. Sharp, PhD, who shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering split genes and RNA splicing, will deliver the 17th annual Paulette Shirey Pritchett Endowed Lecture in Pathology on September 8.
The lecture, “The Biology and Medical Promise of Small RNAs,” is at 2 pm in Margaret Cameron Spain Auditorium.
The prize was shared with Richard J. Roberts, PhD, of New England Biolabs in Beverly, Massachusetts, who independently made the same discovery.
The Nobel committee called it “of fundamental importance for today’s basic research in biology, as well as for medically oriented research” and said it “has changed our view on how genes in higher organisms develop during evolution.”
Dr. Sharp is an institute professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in Boston.
The lectureship is named for Paulette Shirey Pritchett, MD, a pathology department faculty member from 1975 to 1984.