Laureate
David Baulcombe
Born 1952 · United Kingdom · Male
Awards
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2008
Lasker Award — Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award
BiologyFor discoveries that revealed an unanticipated world of tiny RNAs that regulate gene function in plants and animals.
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2010
Wolf Prize — Agriculture
Biologyfor pioneering discovery of gene regulation by small inhibitory RNA molecules in plants is of profound importance, not only for agriculture, but also for biology as a whole, including the field of medicine.