Roger David Kornberg was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006 for his studies of the
process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to
RNA, "the molecular basis of eukaryotic
transcription." His father, Arthur Kornberg, who was
also a professor at Stanford University, was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959.
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Nobel laureate Carol Greider,
Ph.D., presents the seventh annual Jeffrey M. Trent
Lectureship in Cancer Research. Learn about the groundbreaking
research that won her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine.