THE SHAW PRIZE IN LIFE SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 2023


is awarded in equal shares to

PATRICK CRAMER

EVA NOGALES


for pioneering structural biology that enabled visualisation, at the level of individual atoms, of the protein machines responsible for gene transcription, one of life’s fundamental processes. They revealed the mechanism underlying each step in gene transcription, how proper gene transcription promotes health, and how dysregulation causes disease.

 

30 May 2023

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