School of Pharmacy faculty member Su Guo, PhD, is credited by Andrew Fire, PhD, Stanford University scientist and 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for her early work on RNA as a graduate student at Cornell University. Fire notes that his own RNA work, for which he is honored by a Nobel Prize, built upon that of Guo and other colleagues.

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Nobel Winner Credits UCSF Scientist with Early Lead to Key Finding

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• The Nobel Prize In Physiology or Medicine 2006
• Stanford professor shares award: Landmark discovery showed how RNA shuts down genes, San Francisco Chronicle, October 3, 2006
• Su Guo: Guo Fish, UCSF Magazine, May 2003