The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
Phillip A. Sharp
Title:
Institute Professor
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge,Massachusetts USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Biological Sciences
Award Year:
2004
Citation:
"For his contributions to understanding the biochemical pathway of RNA interference phenomena and for his use of RNA interference techniques to perform genetic analyses in mammalian cells."
Presented by President George W. Bush in a White House East Room ceremony on February 13, 2006.
Nobel Laureate:
Physiology or Medicine, 1993