Home : Health : 2 molecular biologists share $500K medical prize <\/p>\n
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Date: Friday May. 11, 2012 8:14 AM ET <\/p>\n
ALBANY, N.Y. Two molecular biologists are being awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. <\/p>\n
James Darnell Jr. and Robert Roeder will receive the prize during a ceremony Friday and will share $500,000, the largest award in medicine and science in the United States. The two men performed pioneering research on how cells express their genetic information. <\/p>\n
Roeder heads the biochemistry and molecular biology lab at The Rockefeller University in New York City, where Darnell is emeritus faculty. <\/p>\n
The two winners were announced in March. <\/p>\n
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