The Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine 2016

 

is awarded in equal shares to

 

ADRIAN P BIRD

and

HUDA Y ZOGHBI

 

for their discovery of the genes and the encoded proteins that recognise one chemical modification of the DNA of chromosomes that influences gene control as the basis of the developmental disorder Rett syndrome.

 

31 May 2016

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