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Preisträger Nobelpreis für Chemie 2018

October 3, 2018 - Frances H Arnold (USA), George P Smith (USA), and Sir Gregory Winter (BRI) erhalten 2018 den Nobelpreis für Chemie für ihre Entwicklung der Methode der "Gerichtete Evolution" für die Produktion von Enzymen und eine "Phagen-Display" genannte Methode zur Produktion neuer Proteine aus von Bakterien infizierten Viren.

Frances Arnold of the California Institute of Technology was awarded half the prize for conducting the first directed evolution of enzymes, leading to more environmentally friendly manufacturing of chemicals, including drugs, and in the production of renewable fuels.

George Smith of the University of Missouri and Gregory Winter of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, share the other half of the prize. Smith developed a new way to evolve proteins and Winter used the method for evolving antibodies with the aim of producing new drugs.

The first drug based on this work is used against rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease, the academy said.

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PUBLISHED: 03/10/2018; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Beavercheme2, UNI of Missouri, CICPLC, Nobel Foundation, Getty Images
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