Published: Mon, 5 Oct 2009
Description: (NECN: Leslie Gaydos, Boston, Mass.) - It was anything but an ordinary day for a Massachusetts General Hospital scientist. Jack Szostak, who is also a Harvard Medical School professor, got the call from Stockholm just before 5:00 this morning, and...
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" Was anything but ordinary day for a Massachusetts General Hospital scientists."
" Jack shots -- who is also a Harvard Medical School professor got the conference Stockholm just before 5 this morning. And he learned that he as a recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine."
" Just after the mass general hospital department of molecular biology was applauded and congratulated. And cheered all day after winning the 2009. Nobel Prize in Medicine."
" This is the highest scientific. So it's it's great to receive the kind of recognition. You know right at -- evidence. It's it's great to share -- collaborators colleagues."
" Just tech shares the prize with colleagues Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California and Carol -- of the Johns Hopkins school of medicine for work they did more than twenty years ago. Discovering -- mechanism in the genetic operations of cells. An insight that has inspired new lines of research into cancer and aging."
" I think it's a great example of birthday it was extremely basic very basic science language led. Many years later tears and hopefully. Practical okay."
" Lots of work going on to them. Develop drugs that act on this machinery and vaccines that act on this machinery because it's very. Active in cancer cells and you can -- wolf or attack -- destroy the cells that have these high activity you could be able to treat cancer. "
" The 56 year old just -- took some time to look through congratulatory. Emails that he said were coming in from just about everyone he ever worked with. -- navigated through swarms of photographers and reporters in his lap which was decked out with balloons and streamers. From there he appeared with the governor this afternoon just deck is now working in a new field studying the origins of life Jack."
" Is among -- all of most respected scientists in the field but what makes an outstanding is his brilliance. He has a very very smart guy he's passionate. About signs he's tremendously creative."
" His right that made famous in the very center. Fine lines."
" Despite this whirlwind day being in Nobel prize winner may take some getting used to."
" There's probably take a while purchasing control of the."
" Just -- says he doesn't know how the Nobel prize includes a one point four million dollar reward and an invitation to the prize ceremonies and stopped cold on December -- so check the money's divided three ways and he says not -- and are doing what he'll do with this. But ES two young children school age kids and he says some of that money may end up in their college fund would need to go down payment -- institutions these kinds Leslie."