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College Fellow awarded Nobel Prize
On the 8th October it was announced that Sir Martin Evans FRS has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2007. The prize was awarded for the discoveries of the principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells. Sir Martin discovered embryonic stem cells when he worked in Cambridge. These were essential to create gene-targeted mice, which have provided many of the most important animal models of human disease.
Sir Martin was a Fellow of St Edmund's College in the 1990's before moving to Cardiff in 1999. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2002, and is the second such Fellow to become a Nobel Laureate after Professor Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 prize for Economics.
"The impact on the understanding of gene function and its benefits to mankind will continue to increase over many years to come." Nobel committee