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Nobel Prize-winner to speak Nov. 10

Mario Capecchi, co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver a lecture Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. in Room 404D of the Biological Sciences Building.

His speech, “Modeling Human Cancers in the Mouse,” is open free to the public. The event is sponsored by the Cellular Biology Graduate Student Association.

Capecchi is Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, which he joined in 1973. Capecchi is also an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.