Nobel Prize | University Discoveries

In 1997, Professor of neurology at UCSF, Stanley Prusiner, won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the prion, a novel infectious...

Some significant discoveries from the list: Fetal Surgery Drs.Joseph Bruner and Noel Tulipan were determined to find a way to do...

Top University of Michigan Discoveries: Francis S. Collins, his UM colleagues, and researchers at 8 other collaborating...

Josh Lederberg, Edward Tatum discovered bacterial recombination, which was then harnessed as a technique to explore biochemical...

The field of bioengineering was pioneered at UCSD. Y.C. Fung, is the father of biomechanics, and was awarded the President’s...

In 1949 Dr. Benedict Cassen of the UCLA Department of Radiology developed the rectilinear scintillation scanner, an instrument that...

1988 Developed the first transgenic mouse, now in use worldwide for cancer research. Experiments with the mouse at Harvard led to a...

Recombinant DNA – Herbert Boyer (UC San Francisco) with Stanley Cohen (Stanford) Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scanning)...

In the 1960’s when University of Virginia was considered a world hub for cardiovascular physiology, Dr. Robert Berne developed a...

In 1941, Esmond Snell, working with colleagues at the University of Texas, independently discovered and named folic acid, a B vitamin...

Arthur Kornberg was the first to synthesize DNA-like material in a test tube. He won the Nobel Prize in 1959 for his work, which is...

Duke Medical Discoveries Irwin Fridovich (Department of Biochemistry) – His laboratory discovered the way living things protect...