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Nobel winner gives
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UNC funds will
support speaker
BY BEN BADS
STAfF WRITER
UNC's NoW Prize-winning pro
fessor has defied to give part of
his award ba to the institutions
where he wofed and studied.
Oliver Snthies, a professor of
pathology art laboratory medicine
at UNC, andiis colleagues. Mario
Capecchi ofne University of Utah
and Sir Evans of Cardiff
University, *re awarded a prize of
about $1.6 lillion. The award was
given in Swedish
krona.
The three sci
entists were rec
ognized in the
field of medicine
for their work
with genetic
targeting that
began in the
early 1980s.
Their research
focused on
genetic target
ing. in which
Professor 4iver
Smithies.
giving hislobel
money to >ur
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have.
Smiths has since split his part
of the a/ard. about $530,000,
among tfc four universities where
he has vvrked or studied. Each will
receive pout $130,000.
The diversities that received
money fere Oxford University, the
Univertty of Wisconsin-Madison,
the Uiversitv of Toronto and
UNC.
"All bur places had something
to do dth it." Smithies said. “Each
in diffrent ways have been part of
my gong to Stockholm, and this is
a nice (cay to recognize them."
Smthies received his master's
and lh.D. from Oxford, then
did s<me postdoctoral work at
Wiscaisin.
Hebegan his research for the
work |e received his Nobel Prize
for atthe University of Toronto,
then r turned to the University of
Wiscinsin-Madison for 25 years
and finally settled at UNC for the
past 30 years.
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it. Each in different waps have been pari
of my going to Stockholm.''
OLIVER SMITHIES, unc professor and nobei prizewinner
The Nobel Prize money is given
with no specific stipulations, and
each university that Smithies is giv
ing to. he said, will ultimately decide
how the money will be ased.
“It’s for the benefit of the univer
sities, not for my benefit or anyone
else’s," Smithies said.
Bill Marzluff, associate dean
for research at the UNC School of
Medicine, said the school will use
the money in the way Smithies rec
ommended it be allocated.
“He wants it to be used for the
students and postdoctoral fellows
to invite a speaker every year,"
Marzluff said.
He added that the only other
stipulation Smithies asked for was
that the speaker be from outside
the United States.
“It will be someone we normally
wouldn’t bo able to unite." Marzluff
said.
Paul Cantin. associate director of
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strategic communications and pub
lic relations for the faculty of medi
cine at the University of Toronto,
said the money will be used for the
same purposes in Toronto.
“The only definite is that some
one is distinguished in his or her
field and have an impact on bio
niedically related emerging sci
ences," Cantin said.
He added that Smithies has
been invited to be a speaker at
the University of Toronto’s spring
convocation.
“There has been mention for an
honorary degree for him. as well,”
Cantin said.
Tuesday Smithies also was rec
ognized by the N.C. Biotech Center,
which renamed its faculty recruit
ment grant program the Smithies
Award.
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