Craig Mello, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Craig Mello

American biologist

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1960

Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profession: physician, professor, biologist, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Craig Cameron Mello (born October 18, 1960) is an American biologist and professor of molecular medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Andrew Z.
Fire, for the discovery of RNA interference.
This research was conducted at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and published in 1998.
Mello has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 2000.