Nobel Prize co-Awardee, Dr. Oliver Smithies dies on January 10, 2017

The International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT, Inc.) is delighted to announce that the 11^th ISTT Prize will be awarded to Dr. Mario Capecchi for his seminal work on homologous recombination in embryonic stem cells, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007.  The ISTT Prize is awarded to investigators who have made outstanding contributions to the field of transgenic technologies. 

On 3 October, 2016, Prof. Thomas Perlmann, the Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine announced that the 2016 Nobel Prize would be awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for “his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy”.