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Faculty member Walter wins $3M Breakthrough Prize
By Rebecca Dawson / Mon Dec 18, 2017
Peter Walter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco, has been named winner of a 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, for his research on a biological mechanism that normally protects cells, but can cause disease if not functioning properly.
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Biochemist Peter Walter Receives 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
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