Craig Mello

Professor, University of Massachusetts

Craig Mello received his B.S. from Brown University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1990. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the laboratory of Dr. James Priess. He joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1994 where he is currently the Blais Professor of Molecular Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

He shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his co-discovery of RNA interference with Andrew Fire. He is the Blais University Chair in Molecular Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His RNAi findings were recognized as the 2002 "Breakthrough of the Year" by Science magazine. Dr. Mello is currently on the scientific advisory board of RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a company dedicated to developing RNAi therapeutics for ALS and diabetes.

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