McGovern Institute news

		McGovern Institute's Horvitz Shares Nobel Prize in Physiology October 2002 H. Robert Horvitz, David H. Koch Professor of Cancer Biology and investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, today received the 2002 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering and characterizing the genes controlling cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Learn more
		McGovern Institute's DiCarlo named 2002 Pew Scholar June 2002 James DiCarlo has been chosen by the Pew Charitable Trusts, as one of America's "most promising biomedical researchers," to be one of the 2002 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. Learn more
		Phil Sharp discovers RNA interference (RNAi), a natural technology that inhibits HIV virus production in lab June 2002 A form of RNA developed at MIT has inhibited replication of HIV-1 virus in human-derived cell lines, potentially showing a new way to combat AIDS. Read the article at MIT News
		Work from Tomaso Poggio's lab has been featured in the national media May 2002 Realistic animation of human face makes simulated talking look real. Read the article at MIT Tech Talk