Genome Valley Excellence Award for Nobel Prize laureate paediatrician
The HinduThe Genome Valley Excellence Award, an integral part of the annual healthcare and life sciences event BioAsia, will be conferred this year on Nobel Prize winning paediatrician and professor of genetic medicine Gregg L. Semenza. The international advisory board announced the selection in light of his ground-breaking discovery in unveiling the hypoxia-inducible factor 1, a pivotal discovery controlling gene expression in response to fluctuations in oxygen availability, BioAsia organisers said on Wednesday. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2019 for discovery on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, the organisers said in a release. I commend professor Semenza for his outstanding contributions to the field of molecular biology and extend my best wishes,” Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu said.
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