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NOTED SCIENTIST.
DR.
LA JOLLA' Jan.
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and function
of
genes,
transmission
of
inherited
been
selected
Science
to
pioneering
For his
the
cel-1ular
material
information,
receive
the
Award administered
I2th
by the
work on the structure
responsible
Sydney Brenner,
annual- Waterford
Research
for
the
Ph.D.,
has
Biomedical
Institute
of
Scripps
Cl inic .
Di r ector
Council,
of
the
Cambridge,
dinner
tonight
today'
he gives
Thoughts
on
at
lulolecular
England,
the
the
Brenner
La Valencia
Waterford
Complex
Genetics
Medical
receives
the
Hotel,
Biomedical
Genomesr"
Unit,
at
Research
award at
La Jolfa.
Earlier
Award Lecture,
4
p.m.
a
in
"Simple
the
SCRF
Amphitheater.
"Dr.
the
Brenner
key puzzles
expresses
processes
that
is
of
one of
the
premier
contributors
how DNA encodes genetic
information
by which new living
Lo
form
material
(more)
information
proteins
is
to
in
developedr"
the
solving
and then
complex
says
Richard
M.D.,
Lerner,
laid
the
well-
in
that
al-1ow individual
foundation
advance
principles
impact
for
many of
the
techniques
genes
have
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practical
Ltd.,
Glass,
to
medical- advances.
Any scientist
$15r000.
biomedicine
is
Using
and
c e l l -s
generations
The award is
profoundly
will
to
Irelandr
The
cloning.
come."
the
€stablished
that
fundamental- research
publications
called
and
the
colleagues
his
information
complex
work
a crystal
leads
to
and
trophy
contributions
who has made significant
bacter ial-
groundbreaking
molecule
by
biology
to
eliqible.
Brenner
genetic
concepts
modern molecular
his
Dublin,
studies
"His
genetic
basic
isolated
from
of
encourage
of
be
for
studies
director.
today's
to
energed
hunan biomedical
in
them,
of
that
Wat.erford
award
Research Institute
in
in
snral-1 vi ruses
a
1960's
seguence of
the
processes
that
copied
is
messenger RNA which
cel-l-ul-ar
into
inf ect
c-lemonstrated in
gene
a
that
the
the
into
a
of
short-lived
subsequently
basic
series
decoded by
building
bl-ocks of
proteins.
In
the
studies
that
how genes
ea r 1y
combined
determine
f orms of
animal- li f e.
research
delineated
simple
form of
I 970 ' s,
Brenner
genetics
the
began
highty
and physiology
formation
and
in
influential
understanding
development
of
complex
U si n g t h e n e m a t o d e a s a m o d e l - s y s t e m , h i s
the
complete
worm including
devel-opmental history
the position
(more)
of
all
of
its
of
this
cells,
cell
l-ines
and contacts
Substantial
progress
all
characterizinq
FoIlowing
Souttr
of
early
Africa,
has also
studies
at
England,
in
scientific
staff
of
the
in
C a m b ri d g e
1954.
FIis research
accomplishments
rvith awards,
honorary
Academy
of
Sciences.
the University
bi-s
system.
identifying
and
since
current
as a member of
director
L957 and its
position
with
He has
Society
received
Empire.
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to
and
the
the
of
f ront
the Laboratory.
have been internationally
Royal
Oxford
Research Council- Laboratory
degrees and el-ection
the
from
doctorate
Lasker Award and the Royal Medal, and is
the British
nervous
of Witwatersrand'
He has served
Medical
1979-86 when he assumed his
including
its
been made towards
earned
University,
societies,
forming
the animal-'s qenes.
Brenner
t4oLecul-ar Biology
for
required
recognized
scientif
the
ic
U.S.
honorary
National
14endel luledal, the
a Companion of Honour of